Category: James Bland

August 5 Carry Me Back to Old Virginny James Bland James Francis Cooke minstrel shows Music quotations

“Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,” the song that made a pioneering Black songwriter famous — and infamous…

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Robert Deis

  How will Rap and Hip Hop songs by Black musicians that use the N-word and seemingly glorify the “thug life” be viewed 140 years from now? I don’t know…