Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teaching, Painter Woodruff holds to no high-brow theories about Negro art. He believes that the Negro should not hide his race ("to let the world know he can paint and sculp as well as act, sing and write") but that, as an American, he should draw his inspiration from the whole pattern of U.S. life. "We are interested," says he, "in expressing the South as a field, as a territory, its peculiar run-down landscape, its social and economic problems, the Negro people...
Behind the motley songs were a motley crew of people, ephemeral but intriguing. Most amazing entertainer of the '90s was Mama Lou, gnarled, coal-black songstress in a St. Louis brothel. (Paderewski was once taken to hear her sing, became captivated.) A wellspring of melody, Mama Lou emerges as the probable source of three hits of the '90s: Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, May Irwin's Bully Song...
...Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought...
Wherever Negroes gather in the U.S., hands rise just as quickly to such a question. To them Lift Every Voice and Sing is the No. 2 song to the national anthem. While white people bemoan the lack of suitable patriotic songs, even find fault with The Star-Spangled Banner's annoying octave-and-a-half range, colored people have quietly adopted a rousing anthem of their...
...Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught...