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2. Cedric Dover, “Paul Robeson,” George Orwell, ed., in Talking to India: A Selection of English Language Broadcasts to India (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1943), 18;
3. Sheila Tully Boyle and Andrew Bunie, Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001).
4. Sarah Lennox, “Reading Transnationally: The GDR and American Black Writers,” in Elaine Kelly and Amy Wlodarski, eds., Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011), 111–130;
5. Will Friedwald, Stardust Melodies: The Biography of Twelve of America’s Most Popular Songs (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002), 104–141.