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Freedom Singing at the March on Washington with Tammy L. Kernodle

Freedom Singing at the March on Washington with Tammy L. Kernodle

FromSound Expertise


Freedom Singing at the March on Washington with Tammy L. Kernodle

FromSound Expertise

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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Apr 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Though often overlooked in mainstream histories, the voices of Black women were central to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963. And those voices included some of the greatest musicians of the time: Odetta, Mahalia Jackson, Camilla Williams.  These women, and the political significance of the spirituals they sang, are the subject of this week's episode: a conversation with the musicologist Tammy L. Kernodle about the wide-ranging role of music, and the fractious political coalitions it represented, at the 1963 March on Washington.Tammy L. Kernodle is Professor of Musicology at Miami University in Ohio.Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org!Questions? Thoughts? Share them with Will on Twitter @seatedovation
Released:
Apr 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (49)

Conversations with scholars about music, hosted by musicologist Will Robin and produced by D. Edward Davis