Carousel was Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Spiritual.” The show sang out in 1943 and still sings out to this day of the pain and the release of leaving behind life’s agonies for another plane. It may be set in the whitest of American neighborhoods, Maine, near the turn of the last century, with a musical voice as far removed from a field holler as one could conceive, but the sentiments explored and expressed are largely those of “Negro Spirituals.”
The Troubled Color Blindness of "Carousel"
The Troubled Color Blindness of "Carousel"
The Troubled Color Blindness of "Carousel"
Carousel was Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Spiritual.” The show sang out in 1943 and still sings out to this day of the pain and the release of leaving behind life’s agonies for another plane. It may be set in the whitest of American neighborhoods, Maine, near the turn of the last century, with a musical voice as far removed from a field holler as one could conceive, but the sentiments explored and expressed are largely those of “Negro Spirituals.”