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How a Reconstruction-era singing tour changed popular music

A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music, according to Vann Newkirk of The Atlantic. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with him about his article on the Fisk Jubilee Singers.

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