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Posted inArts and Culture

A Little Girl’s Legacy for a Nation

by Stephen Wade December 6, 2013December 8, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: In this excerpt from Stephen Wade’s book, The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, the author profiles Ora Dell Graham, a little girl from Drew, Mississippi, who performed three playground songs for folklorist John A. Lomax in 1940. +++ Sonny Milton focused silently on the road ahead. Nestled […]

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