- speech that was ascribed to African Americans. I have to take a breath and remind myself that it was the era, but it still weighs hard on the mind.
Some of the music is quite entertaining and fun. Mamie Smith sang a couple of songs I liked a lot, and I loved The Alphabetical Four; they were great. Others didn’t work for me, but the one thing they all
had in common is that they were new; I’d never heard them before.
Something else that was very new was a gospel version of Othello’s big Desdemona killing scene. I haven’t seen that before and it had a really strange appeal to it.
Ultimately, this movie does a decent job in telling its story, and the music was appropriate and enjoyable for the most part. Plus, it’s nice to see that good overcame evil.
