Chapter 14: Of the Sorrow Songs
The Negro folk-song---the rhythmic cry of the slave---stands today not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side the seas.Read in Books4Free →
Of the Sorrow Songs
From The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois's closing chapter on the spirituals as America's only authentic indigenous music and the deepest expression of Black soul and history.
Chapter 14: Of the Sorrow Songs
The closing benediction and rhetorical questions: 'Your country? How came it yours?... Around us the history of the land has centered for thrice a hundred years.'
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Each chapter is famously prefaced by a bar of a spiritual, paired with verse from European poets---a structural argument for cultural equality.
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