The African American sound world of mid 19th-century Dorchester County is evident through a Black American cultural tradition called generational transmission. Minty’s Childhood: African American Music Culture of the Maryland Eastern Shore This essay is a sound collage and discussion of the early African American music culture that molded one of our most prolific ancestors. The longue durée of Tubman’s story in my life set me on the trajectory to be able to explore the songs she sang, and the sound world in which she lived, so that we can better understand her life. I was disturbed, but my discomfort was necessary to my own life’s journey in becoming “the lion’s historian”-an ethnomusicologist who impacts the public narrative of Black music and cultures. It was her story, probably Sarah Bradford’s 1886 biography read aloud by my first-grade teacher for Black History Month, that first ushered me into an awareness that I descend from the only group of people enslaved in mass in the United States. This was for me a pilgrimage of sorts as an African American woman who grew up in Maryland and who was raised on her legacy. Living in Washington, D.C., at the time, it was a relatively short journey to Dorchester County in the Maryland Eastern Shore where Tubman was born and raised. In spring 2019, I went on a trip to the birthplace of Harriet Tubman. Explore the interactive groundbreaking site here. 1, and culminating on March 10, the Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project pays tribute to this feminist icon with a special commemorative issue through Ms. (Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles L.
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