Musical/Textual Double Consciousness in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk

Besides introducing groundbreaking critical concepts such as double consciousness, colour line and the veil, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903) was among the first books to attribute universal dignity to black music. It did so by devoting a whole chapter to the ‘sorrow songs’, seen a...

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Main Author: Elia, Adriano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari 2022-12-01
Series:Il Tolomeo
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Online Access:http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2022/01/019