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Jeremy Jeanguenin, « W.E.B. Du Bois & his musical quotes », Black Troubadours, ID : 10670/1.0apc5n
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It is remarkable how Du Bois used musical quotes to build up his writings, especially his most famous work The Souls of Black Folk (1903). He was known to be a fairly good singer, though he used to self judge and in fact considering he knew "little of music". Du Bois himself claimed that music was way more evocative than words in the construction of black people's identity and whole story, in the sense that it travels through the entire oral tradition (even though this accurate expression i...