When I was young, I didn’t really like this song … it was so far outside my cultural experience and people tend to like the kind of music they’re familiar with. When I got into high school, we had a great choral program that exposed me to all kinds of music I never would have known about otherwise, from all over the world. Spirituals were a big part of that exposure to a larger musical landscape and inspired me to make purchases of music from artists outside the states in the 90s from musicians I otherwise would have had no contact with. I also purchased recordings of bipoc artists in the USA that I probably would have had no exposure to without that educational experience … these purchases included a recording of a Carnegie Hall Christmas concert featuring Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis from which I came to love “Go Tell it on the Mountain.”

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