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Bob the Drag Queen
Newsweek Europe
|April 04, 2025
WHAT IF HARRIET TUBMAN CAME BACK TO MODERN-DAY AMERICA TO MAKE A hip-hop album in order to continue her work as an abolitionist?
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That's exactly the world Bob the Drag Queen creates in their new novel Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert. "It is the most remarkable story in American history," Bob says of Tubman's life. She "sees how remarkable African American culture is, what it's become, how hip-hop has saved the nation, saved the world and she wants to take part in it." In addition to the physical book, the audio experience of the novel is just as enthralling, complete with original music. "A part of Harriet Tubman's story is music. [She] did use music in her work as an abolitionist." And the music included in the audiobook is "the best music I've ever written. Easily. I cry when I listen to this music." And true to form, Bob, a
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