Name: The Harlem Dancer
Duration: P00H03M26S
Description: A musical setting of the sonnet by Claude McKay. If the composition and performance do justice to McKay's poem, this song will be a real success.

The Harlem Dancer

by La Tendance Jacobine

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A musical setting of the sonnet by Claude McKay. If the composition and performance do justice to McKay's poem, this song will be a real success.

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Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes
And watched her perfect, half-clothed body sway
Her voice was like the sound of blended flutes
Blown by black players upon a picnic day
She sang and danced on gracefully and calm
The light gauze hanging loose about her form
To me she seemed a proudly-swaying palm
Grown lovelier for passing through a storm
Upon her swarthy neck black shiny curls
Luxuriant fell; and tossing coins in praise
The wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys, and even the girls
Devoured her shape with eager, passionate gaze
But looking at her falsely-smiling face
I knew her self was not in that strange place

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released May 7, 2022
Words: Claude McKay
Music: Quincy R. Lehr

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La Tendance Jacobine Los Angeles, California

Dad rock for cool dads, post-punk via Middle America, or what might have happened if Gram Parsons had joined Bauhaus instead of the Byrds (though we love the Byrds). Take your pick. The person you fancy but haven't worked up the nerve to approach yet likes us. You'll like us, too. ... more

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