How Black Is King Got Its African Lullabies

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The “newest” songs on Black Is King are also the oldest.

, they’re all drawn from a period between the late 1950s and the early 1970s. Is there something special about that period of time?There were a couple of things going on. One is an intense period of recording, but also an intense period of publication. People recorded and deposited those recordings in archives for years, and nothing was ever heard, but then there came a few record labels like Folkways and Ocora that put out stuff from all over the world.

When I tried to reverse engineer how the search would occur to get these materials, I think I get it—the basics of it—although I can’t figure out how they got to the Pete Seeger. I thought she was trying to do a couple of things. One was to reach back to her own sense of African heritage, which is, just because of the nature of being descended from slaves, you don’t really know where your African heritage starts.

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