Field Hollers And Freedom Songs: The Anthology

The essays in this book make an eloquent plea for celebrating the resilience and creativity of generations of men and women who, in response to the hardship, hostility and deprivation of their lives sharecropping and picking cotton in the Mississippi Delta, built on their African roots to create a distinctive, dynamic and life-affirming culture, much of it expressed through the music which has become, in the words of one author, the “soul of America.”

Stephanie Deutsch

author 'You Need a Schoolhouse, Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South'