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Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson Boole le'lliews 65 Duberman, Martin Bauml. Paul Robeson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Alumnus of Rutgers University and Columbia University Law School, concert and recording artist, stage and film star, All-Ameri­ can athlete-Paul Robeson, son of an ex-slave, was one of America's early activists who fought for black civil rights in America. Prior to emerging as one of the foremost socialist spokespersons of the inter­ national underclasses, says Martin Duberman, Robeson perceived his personal artistic accomplishments as a partial answer to the dilemma of black degradation: In stressing art as a solvent for racism, Robeson was articulat­ ing a characteristic of the Harlem Renaissance intellectuals: racial advance would come primarily through individual artistic achievement, not as the result of political pressure and polemics. As he emphasized in his interview with The Messenger, "it is by proving our artistic capacity that we will be best recognized." (72) Robeson became known in the artistic capacity of an interpreter of black spirituals, music he learned during his upbringing in his fa­ ther's church. Carl Sandburg noticed a genuine and sanguine spir­ ituality that emanated in his renditions of spirituals that did not seem to be present in Roland Hayes's more refined http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Black Sacred Music Duke University Press

Paul Robeson

Duberman, Martin Bauml
Black Sacred Music , Volume 4 (2) – Sep 1, 1990
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Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press
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1043-9455
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Boole le'lliews 65 Duberman, Martin Bauml. Paul Robeson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Alumnus of Rutgers University and Columbia University Law School, concert and recording artist, stage and film star, All-Ameri­ can athlete-Paul Robeson, son of an ex-slave, was one of America's early activists who fought for black civil rights in America. Prior to emerging as one of the foremost socialist spokespersons of the inter­ national underclasses, says Martin Duberman, Robeson perceived his personal artistic accomplishments as a partial answer to the dilemma of black degradation: In stressing art as a solvent for racism, Robeson was articulat­ ing a characteristic of the Harlem Renaissance intellectuals: racial advance would come primarily through individual artistic achievement, not as the result of political pressure and polemics. As he emphasized in his interview with The Messenger, "it is by proving our artistic capacity that we will be best recognized." (72) Robeson became known in the artistic capacity of an interpreter of black spirituals, music he learned during his upbringing in his fa­ ther's church. Carl Sandburg noticed a genuine and sanguine spir­ ituality that emanated in his renditions of spirituals that did not seem to be present in Roland Hayes's more refined

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