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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Eighteen Original Negro Spirituals
New York, 1938
Courtesy of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Gift of Gayle Wald
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the “Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” rose to prominence in the 1930s as a pioneer of mixing “secular sounds,” such as electric guitar, with sacred lyrics. |