Deep Roots Magazine

Deep Roots Magazine

Roots Music and Meaningful Matters

 
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The Kiowas’ Sacred Longhorn Mountain Under Siege in Oklahoma

In southwest Oklahoma the LONGHORN MOUNTAIN, sacred site to the Kiowa people, is in jeopardy of being turned to rubble by a gravel mining operation. Mining has stalled but the threat remains.
by David McGee
 

 
 
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers: Working On a Building

In 1871 the JUBILEE SINGERS of Nashville toured the northern states in hopes of raising funds to build a college. Bucking daunting odds against them, they succeeded and made Fisk University possible.
by David McGee
 

 

 
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‘Once in Royal David’s City’

The journey of 'Once in Royal David's City' from an 1848 text to global processional hymn.
by David McGee
 

 
 
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The Lost Instruments of Antiquity

ROBERT HUGILL reviews RICHARD BOOTHBY's Alfonso Ferrabosco: Music for the Lyra Viol and JULIAN PERKINS's Handel's Attick: Music for Solo Clavichord
by David McGee
 

 

 
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Remembering Pete Seeger

Remembering PETE SEEGER by those who knew him and in his own words. The first of a two-part tribute.
by David McGee