Author: James Weldon JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Books Of American Negro Spirituals
Author: James Weldon JohnsonBest-loved Negro Spirituals
Author: Nicole Beaulieu HerderPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486416779
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
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.
American Negro Songs
Author: John Wesley WorkPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486402711
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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.
All Night, All Day
Author: Ashley BryanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481409921
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Bryan has selected twenty best-known and best-loved African-American spirituals, including the title song, "All Night, All Day," and such others as "This Little Light of Mine," "O When the Saints Go Marching In," and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." Glorious full-color pictures, piano accompaniment, and guitar chords help capture the spirit and essence of these timeless songs that can be enjoyed by people of every age and every level of musical skill.
Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
Author: Sandra Jean GrahamPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252050304
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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/
An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice
Author: Kathleen A. AbromeitPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313032300
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Spirituals were an intrinsic part of the African-American plantation life and were sung at all important occasions and events. This volume is the first index of African-American spirituals to be published in more than half a century and will be an important research tool for scholars and students of African-American history and music. The first collection of slave songs appeared in 1843, without musical notation, in a series of three articles by a Methodist Church missionary identified simply as c. Collections that included musical notation began appearing in the 1850s. The earliest book-length collection of spirituals containing both lyrics and music was published in 1867 and entitled Slave Songs of the United States. Not since the 1930s, with the publication of the Index to Negro Spirituals by the Cleveland Public Library, has an index of spirituals been compiled. The spirituals are neatly organized in four indexes: a title index, first line index, alternate title index and a topical index that includes twenty major categories. A bibliography of indexed sources serves as a guide for further research.
Slave Songs of the United States
Author: William Francis AllenPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557094349
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
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.
Folk Song of the American Negro
Author: John Wesley WorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Negro Spirituals
Author: Christa K. DixonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780608163178
Category : Spirituals (Songs)
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Lift Every Voice and Sing II Accompaniment Edition
Author: Church PublishingPublisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9780898692396
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This popular collection of 280 musical pieces from both the African American and Gospel traditions has been compiled under the supervision of the Office of Black Ministries of the Episcopal Church. It includes service music and several psalm settings in addition to the Negro spirituals, Gospel songs, and hymns.