A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/arts/design/03gullah.html?_r=2
“Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner, Connecting Communities Through Language” includes musical instruments and African costumes along with photographs, field notes, tape recordings and artifacts from the Turner collection at the Anacostia Community Museum. A related, Turneresque exhibition, “Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art,” is on view at the National Museum of African Art.
By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: September 2, 2010

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