Solely sonic, the Sims piece is based mostly on a one common music, “Dixie,” composed for pre-Civil War minstrel reveals and meant to mock clichés of “happy” Black slave daily life. (It is achievable that its lyricists ended up Black.) Later, with altered verses, it became the national anthem of […]
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VMFA presents The Dirty South: Contemporary Artwork, Substance Society, and the Sonic Impulse
The Virginia Museum of High-quality Arts (VMFA) will existing the groundbreaking exhibition The Soiled South: Contemporary Artwork, Substance Culture, and the Sonic Impulse. On check out from May 22 to September 6, 2021, the exhibition explores the aesthetic legacies and traditions of Black society in the African American South as […]