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The Role of Music: Solomon Northrup’s Twelve Years a Slave in Text and Film
- CEA Critic
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 78, Number 1, March 2016
- pp. 78-89
- 10.1353/cea.2016.0002
- Article
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“Viewed as a mythical narrative, music in slave communities can be compared to the musical chorus of the Muses, an effect that means that Northrup’s role extends beyond the dynamics of American life in music.”