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Carrie Mae Weems’s Visual Response to Sam Cooke's “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Weems’s essay is excerpted from Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces.
September 27, 2021
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The below photo essay, a visual response to Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come," is excerpted from Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces , edited by Scott Burnham, Marna Seltzer, and Dorothea von Moltke, and published by Princeton University Press . The editors write in the introduction that Weems's essay "exhorts us to 'hear' in her images the lament that is also both a promise and a plea contained in the soul lyric by Sam Cooke: 'It’s been so long, it’s been so long, a little too long / A change has gotta come.'"
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