He was both an art singer AND a folk singer. He preserved music from memory and transmitted it orally, AND he worked from sheet music in more classical forms.

I don't understand why it's so simple to see and respect that in an artist with the passage of time, but so hard to see in ourselves and in one another.

Paul Robeson is an example of the people I referred to in a recent thread about where we got the spirituals we know of today, where I listed categories of source types.

~Susan