Hello lovely readers!
I hope you all had a safe and happy New Year!
My husband and I went to Asheville, NC to celebrate New Year's Eve as we got tickets to go to the Biltmore as a wedding gift. While on the way up to the mountains, I FINALLY broke my reading slump and started reading Sissieretta Jones: The Greatest Singer of Her Race 1868-1933 by Maureen D. Lee. I had never heard of her, but I came across her through someone's post on Bookstagram, I think. Since I was heavy in my book buying last year, I added this to the list and bought it. So let's get into it!
I hope you all had a safe and happy New Year!
My husband and I went to Asheville, NC to celebrate New Year's Eve as we got tickets to go to the Biltmore as a wedding gift. While on the way up to the mountains, I FINALLY broke my reading slump and started reading Sissieretta Jones: The Greatest Singer of Her Race 1868-1933 by Maureen D. Lee. I had never heard of her, but I came across her through someone's post on Bookstagram, I think. Since I was heavy in my book buying last year, I added this to the list and bought it. So let's get into it!
"To my mind no artist should omit one of these beautiful [Negro Folk] songs from his or her repertoire. Every school, college or university should include one of these songs in their musical program. Let the 'Negro folk song' become universally popular and their sweet dolorous melodies will proclaim to the world that the Negro is a people of sorrows who has made companionship with grief. A people that will yet come through the furnaces of affliction and persecution and become as gold, tried in the fire."
