…I’m also dwelling on Nashville. The RV blew up about 2.5 miles from Jubilee Hall, home to the Fisk Jubilee singers of 1871. W E B Du Bois wrote about the Songs of Sorrow that they shared with the world in 1871 as bearing “heart–touching witness… the music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.”…
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