27 September, 2006

The Voice of Zora Neale Hurston


Click here to listen to audio clips of Zora Neale speaking (and even singing!) from the Online Classroom of the Florida Memory Project.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i really did not undestand what she was saying in the second song but i understand why she sung the song in the three one.

Anonymous said...

It was very interesting.. Comparing the today to the past folklore will definitely open your eye.

I guess while traveling(her job), she wrote and also collected folklores, which were used to describe things. She sang those 2 songs to describe a card game and how she saw guys working on railroad.