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Swing Low Sweet Chariot Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Calling Card
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” is known today as one of the most popular of all African American spirituals in part because it became one of the calling cards of the Fisk University Choir, known as...
Music
Many music scholars argue that African American spirituals represent the first indigenous form of music to emerge in North America (Native American music doesn’t count, apparently). Composed by s...
