"Composed by [Shirley] Graham, who had studied at Oberlin ... and would later marry W.E.B. Du Bois, the opera" - titled Tom-Tom - "tells the diaspora story of African-Americans, beginning in an unnamed West African village, traveling to a Southern plantation, and ending amid the Harlem Renaissance." Why did it disappear? Says scholar Lucy Caplan, […]
SOURCE: news.harvard.edu at 10:36AM on March 14, 2018