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She Knows a Place: For seven decades, the gospel singer Mavis Staples has troubled the opposition between chorus and soloist, background and lead.
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Mavis Staples: “Sad And Beautiful World” - | Use your sweet voice: After seven decades, Mavis Staples crowns her life's work with “Sad And Beautiful World”.
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What Mavis Staples can teach us about resisting Trumpism: Protecting democracy requires many soldiers in "the army of love”
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Mavis Staples Is an American Institution. She’s Not Done Singing Yet.: After more than seven decades onstage, the gospel and soul great decided last year that it ...
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