The Books Of American Negro Spirituals
Author | : James Weldon Johnson |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : James Weldon Johnson |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Eric Sean Crawford |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2021-07-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1643361910 |
In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. This work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina's St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s. Grounded in an oral tradition with a dynamic and evolving character, spirituals proved equally adaptable for use during social and political unrest and in unlikely circumstances. Most notably, the island's songs were used at the turn of the century to help rally support for the United States' involvement in World War I and to calm racial tensions between black and white soldiers. In the 1960s, civil rights activists adopted spirituals as freedom songs, though many were unaware of their connection to the island. Gullah Spirituals uses fieldwork, personal recordings, and oral interviews to build upon earlier studies and includes an appendix with more than fifty transcriptions of St. Helena spirituals, many no longer performed and more than half derived from Crawford's own transcriptions. Through this work, Crawford hopes to restore the cultural memory lost to time while tracing the long arc and historical significance of the St. Helena spirituals.
Author | : Sandra Jean Graham |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-02-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0252050304 |
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies. In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources to chart the spiritual's journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. In so doing they lay the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century. A companion website contains jubilee troupe personnel, recordings, and profiles of 85 jubilee groups. Please go to: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/graham/spirituals/
Author | : Nicole Beaulieu Herder |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780486416779 |
Beloved spirituals include such lasting favorites as All God's Children Got Shoes, Balm in Gilead, Deep River, Down by the Riverside, Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, Gimme That Ol'-Time Religion, He's Got the Whole World in His Hand, Roll, Jordan, Roll, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Steal Away to Jesus, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, This Train, Wade in the Water, We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder, Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? and many more. Excellent for sing-alongs, community programs, church functions, and other events.
Author | : William Francis Allen |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 1557094349 |
Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell, as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow, and a dull, daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand, the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after, to which their eyes seem constantly turned.
Author | : Moses Hogan |
Publisher | : Oxford : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
African American spirituals comprise one of the world's greatest and best-loved bodies of music. The Oxford Book of Spirituals is the first anthology to present a comprehensive survey of the genre's repertoire -- its principal composers, themes, and forms -- in a way that is at once stylistically authentic, historically meaningful, and intended for practical use both in worship and in concert. This collection features a rich array of songs, both familiar and less familiar, arranged for SATB choir by twenty-eight of the most significant American composers and presented in chronological order from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.
Author | : Randye Jones |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2019-10-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 153810735X |
With their rich and complicated history, spirituals hold a special place in the American musical tradition. This soul-stirring musical form is irresistible to singers seeking to diversify their performance repertoire, but it is also riddled with controversy, especially for singers of non-African descent. Singer and historian Randye Jones welcomes singers of all backgrounds into the style while she explores its folk song roots and transformation into choral and solo vocal concert repertoire. Profiling key composers and pioneers of the genre, Jones also discusses the use of dialect and other controversial performance considerations. Contributed chapters address elements of collaborative piano, studio teaching, choral arrangement, voice science, and vocal health as they apply to the performance of spirituals. The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Spirituals features online supplemental material on the NATS website.
Author | : Mark Hayes |
Publisher | : Alfred Music |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781457413070 |
Award-winning composer, arranger, pianist and recording artist Mark Hayes has crafted a superb anthology of ten traditional spirituals for vocal soloist with piano accompaniment in true art-song style, ideal for school or church singers.
Author | : Harry T. Burleigh |
Publisher | : Alfred Music Publishing |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2007-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780739045282 |
Harry Burleigh's music falls into three categories: secular, religious, and sacred. This 200-page collection is a treasure of history made usable in his fine arrangements. "Deep River" was published in 1917, the first of many to make Burleigh well-known as a composer. This title is available in SmartMusic.
Author | : Edward Boatner |
Publisher | : Warner Bros. Publications |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1985-03-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780769253336 |
The Story of the Spirituals are Bible stories set to music. Edward Boatner chose 30 stories for which he gives music and his research of their origins. It is a tribute to Mr. Boatner's presentation of this music that the book has been one of Belwin's best-selling books for more than 20 years.