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Their eyes were watching God: African-American topical songs on the 1928 Florida hurricanes and floods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2007

Abstract

This study focuses on the five known African-American topical songs dealing with the two hurricanes and ensuing floods that took place in Florida in the summer of 1928. The first is a commercially recorded blues song and the others are unreleased Library of Congress sacred recordings, which are transcribed and analysed here for the first time.

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Articles
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2007 Cambridge University Press

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