Article: Harry Burleigh as ethnomusicologist? Transcription, arranging, and the Old Songs Hymnal.(Biography)

Harry Burleigh's demeanor has been described variously by some of the younger artists of the Harlem Renaissance as elegant and refined or as aloof and removed. Although many saw dignity in Burleigh's bearing as well as in his artistic arrangements of spirituals, others saw something else. Harlem Renaissance choral arranger and director Eva Jessye intimated that Burleigh's deportment was "related to his desire to disclaim his racial heritage" (quoted in Spencer 1997, 6). Zora Neale Hurston struck a similar note in a 1931 letter to Charlotte Mason, asserting that Harry Burleigh "has less sympathy for the Negro than anyone ... [that I] can imagine" (6). Either complaint may ...

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