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Origins of "Kumbaya", The
This article, which first appeared in Music K-8, Vol. 16 No. 3, tells some of the fascinating history of this beautiful spiritual. You may want to print it out and use it as a part of a unit on Black History Month, but you could also use it as a cross-curricular exercise to talk about the development of languages (pidgins and creoles).
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