Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon's choices did not agree with Johnny Cash's pro-underdog sympathies. When he expressed his reluctance, a White House aide told him that he could sing anything he wished. That freedom of song persists, even at command performances, is reassuring. That the President should request a number that ridicules society's least favored souls seems oddly...
When things cannot be changed right off, though, the blues can be a big help. Like a lot of other white blues singers today-Joplin, Johnny Winter, John Mayall-Cocker occasionally encounters resentment that he, a white man, should dare to sing the black man's music. His reply to that is that the blues is now so important a music that it transcends racial boundaries. "Blues are in the back of everybody's mind," he says. "Everybody needs an outlet, 'cause no matter what you've got in possessions, you're still up against...
...remember when we used to sing...
...work and sing their cheery song...
...opera, the scene is improving slightly. Three decades ago, Soprano Dorothy Maynor could and did prepare opera after opera without ever being invited to sing. One of the century's finest contraltos, Marian Anderson, did not break into opera until 1955, when she was 52. Beyond Tenor George Shirley there are hardly any black male opera singers. But of the top eight American-born female operatic singers, four-Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, Martina Arroyo and Grace Bumbry-are black...