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POP NOTES | OPINION: Cotton Plant's monument to Sister Rosetta Tharpe would honor more than a hometown legend.

NW Arkansas Online

Sep 3, 2026

POP NOTES | OPINION: Cotton Plant's monument to Sister Rosetta Tharpe would honor more than a hometown legend.

Cotton Plant's claim on Sister Rosetta Tharpe is not provincial homerism. She did not help invent this music despite coming from Cotton Plant. In an important sense, she helped inv…

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POP NOTES | OPINION: Cotton Plant's monument to Sister Rosetta Tharpe would honor more than a hometown legend.

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