Paul Robeson's Voices

Grant Olwage is a music historian and lecturer in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the editor of Composing Apartheid and has written extensively on the Black voice, race, choral cultures, and coloniality. His writing on Paul Robeson's singing, voice, and musical arts has appeared widely.

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the Companion Website Introduction: Voice-Thinking1. Becoming Paul Robeson's Voice2. <"Negro Spiritual> ": Voicing Desire3. Natural Acts, or To Sing Simply4. A Voice for the People5. Voices Politic6. A Microphone VoiceAfterword: In-between and Against: A Voice for the Times Works CitedIndex

“The key to understanding Paul Robeson's global humanitarian legacy and cosmopolitan musical imagination, Grant Olwage proposes, can be found by listening to his vocal intelligence, technique, and music-historical awareness. Bold, clear, lyrical, deeply researched and including new archival material, Olwage's polyvocal narrative follows Robeson's 'voices' across continents.” - Nina Eidsheim, author of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music