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currentmusicology-5134	Miller, Kiri	Review of William T. Dargan. 2006. Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press	2008	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3702	132	44	Dargan suggests that Dr. Watts singing has been sidelined or dismissed by music scholars, many African American worship communities, and some prominent black intellectuals (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston) because of a wide­ spread perception that the tradition is not authentically African American and has persisted as a legacy of the enforced illiteracy of the slavery era. Dargan shows how Dr. Watts singing has been regarded as both too black-indeed, so utterly black ... that few middle class or well-educated blacks care to contemplate it for long (238)-and as insufficiently African.	cache/currentmusicology-5134.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5134.txt