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In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly freed slaves. During her stay she heard the singing of the slaves in their churches, as they rowed their boats from island to island, and as they worked and played. Already a skilled musician, she determined to preserve as much of the music as she could, quickly writing down words and melodies, some of them only fleeting improvisations. Upon her return to Philadelphia, she began composing musical settings for the songs and in the fall of 1862 published the first serious musical arrangements of slave songs. She also wrote about the musical characteristics of slave songs, and published, in a leading musical journal of the time, the first article to discuss what she had witnessed. In __Songs of Sorrow__ renowned music scholar Samuel Charters tells McKim's personal story. Letters reveal the story of young women’s lives during the harsh years of the war. At the same time that her arrangements of the songs were being published, a man with w

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Author

Samuel Charters

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781626745346

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Music, History