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| 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 | : Sandra Jean Graham |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| 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 | : George Pullen Jackson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 510 |
| Release | : 2013-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781494115845 |
This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.
| Author | : Dena J. Epstein |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780252071508 |
Awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. This classic work is being reissued with a new author's preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.
| Author | : Felicia Raphael Marie Barber |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2021-10-06 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1793635358 |
A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African American Spirituals: History, Context, and Linguistics investigates the use of the African American English (AAE) dialect in the musical genre of the spiritual. Perfect for conductors and performers alike, this book traces the history of the dialect, its use in early performance practice, and the sociolinguistic impact of the AAE dialect in the United States. Felicia Barber explores AAE’s development during the African Diaspora and its correlations with Southern States White English (SSWE) and examines the dialect’s perception and how its weaponization has impacted the performance of the genre itself. She provides a synopsis of research on the use of dialect in spirituals from the past century through the analysis of written scores, recordings, and research. She identifies common elements of early performance practice and provides the phonological and grammatical features identified in early practice. This book contains practical guide for application of her findings on ten popular spiritual texts using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It concludes with insights by leading arrangers on their use of AAE dialect as a part of the genre and practice.
| Author | : John Wesley Work |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 1998-01-01 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0486402711 |
Authoritative study traces the African influences and lyric significance of such songs as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and John Henry, and gives words and music for 230 songs. Bibliography. Index of Song Titles.
| Author | : Margaret R. Simmons |
| Publisher | : SIU Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780809325238 |
Including thirty-nine pieces for voice and piano created since 1968 by eighteen artists, ANew Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers navigates a varied musical terrain from classical European traditions to jazz and spirituals. With nearly half of the featured songs composed by women and with others by lesser-known and emerging composers, this important collection offers a diverse, representative sampling of African American art songs and works to secure the places of these songs and artists in the canon of contemporary American music.
| Author | : Helen Walker-Hill |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : African American women composers |
| ISBN | : 0252074548 |
Exploding the assumption that black women's only important musical contributions have been in folk, jazz, and pop Helen Walker-Hill's unique study provides a carefully researched examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the effect of race, gender, and class, From Spirituals to Symphonies notes the important role played by individual personalities and circumstances in shaping this underappreciated category of American art. The study also provides in-depth exploration of the backgrounds, experiences, and musical compositions of eight African American women including Margaret Bonds, Undine Smith Moore, and Julia Perry, who combined the techniques of Western art music with their own cultural traditions and individual gifts. Despite having gained national and international recognition during their lifetimes, the contributions of many of these women are today forgotten.
| 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 | : Timothy Rice |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1174 |
| Release | : 2017-09-25 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1351544268 |
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
