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currentmusicology-5355	Kibbee, Brendan	Black Labor and the Deep South in Hurston’s The Great Day and Ellington’s Black, Brown, and Beige	2017	18	.pdf	application/pdf	6876	324	62	The Great Day, which premiered in 1932, chronicles a day in the life of a group of Florida railroad workers, and much of the first act fea- tured a company of dancers singing work songs while simulating the labor of “lining” and “spiking” railroad tracks. Ellington, in the context of this or- chestral composition, thus combines multiple details of work songs’ body- coordinating capabilities into a single phrase.	cache/currentmusicology-5355.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5355.txt