https://youtube/watch?v=Eg7bPgrosAE Jeff Sparrow in a piece in The Drum explains about Robesons signature song which I put up yesterday (original version because it was a clip from the movie of 1927): These days, Robeson is probably best known for Ol Man River, a piece that he first performed in the musical Show Boat. The songs evolution mirrored Robesons own. As his career developed, he changed the line You gets a little drunk and you land in jail to You makes a little fuss and you land in jail, and switched Im tired a living, and scared a dying to I must keep fighting until Im dying, transforming a lyric of phlegmatic resignation into an anthem of defiance. Ol Man River is often assumed to be an authentic spiritual, so thoroughly did Robeson turn in a show tune written by two white men into a black anthem.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:20:08 +0000
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