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Negroes had always rigorously main tained a distinction between gospel and blues???the sacred and profane?despite the affinity of their sounds. But Charles boldly brought them together, blending foot-stamping orgiastic jubilation shouts with the abrasive, existentialist irony of "devil songs." He even carried over the original gospel tunes and changed the words to fit the emotion. "Lord" became "you," or "baby," and it didn't matter if the bulk of the prayerful text remained the same. Thus Clara Ward's rousing old gospel song, This Little Light of Mine, became Charles's This Little Girl of Mine...
This year it has been decided that Black shall be even more fashionable than last, that all the autumn colors shall be dark. The economic wisdom of this decision is easy to see. Last year's opalescent pinks & blues???and 1929's brown and 1928's beige & red?odd-lots of which remain in many a manufacturer's inventory (Amalgamated last week had $1,150,000 in inventories), can readily be redyed and sold so long as the new color is darker than before, or Black. Manufacturers may escape the red of deficits through the black of fashion...
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