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...Joshua McCarter Simpson BY JOSIWA 'l'tt'O SIMPSON, 22 Original Anti-Slavery Songs ., ORIGINAL ANTI-SLAVERY ,SQ:HGS,1· 23 24 The Journal of Black Sacred Music PREFACE. In offering my first little production to the public, I am well aware that many superstitutious, prejudiced, and perhaps many good...

...Vicki L. Eaklor Introduction to Joshua Simpson's Original Anti-Slavery Songs Vicki L. Eaklor By the year 1852 the political experiment called the United States had weathered several crises that had threatened its very existence. The most recent had erupted two years earlier over the status...

... is a list of the few volumes of antislavery song available for study in the Black Sacred Music Archive: Anti-Slavery Songs: A Selection from the Best Anti-Slavery Authors. Salem, Ohio: I. Trescott & Co., 1849. Microfilm. Betker, John P. , comp. Miriam's Timbrel, or Sacred Songs, Suited to Revival Occasions...

... provoked by far the most controversy. They have been accused of anti-Semitism for the verse: Told the mob "get off the rag" Crucifixion ain't no fiction ro. Muhammad, M essage, 297. 11. Essien-Udon, Bla ck Nati onalism , 1 67. 48 Blade Sacred Music So-called chosen frozen Apology made to whoever pleases...

.... E. Zion Hymnal. Charlotte, North Carolina: A. M. E. Zion Publishing House, 1957. b35 Anti-Slavery Songs: A Selection from the Best Anti-Slavery Authors.* Salem, Ohio: I. Trescott & Co., 1849. Microfilm. Bl9 The Baptist Standard Hymnal. Ed. Mrs. A. M. Townsend. Nashville: National Baptist Convention...

... degree in 18 s3 (the year after Simpson's first antislavery song- book, Original Anti-Slavery Songs, was published) . After privately Book lenews 61 studying law, he was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1854 (the publication year of Simpson's second songbook, The Emancipation Car), whereupon he practiced law...

... Hyde, 34 drugs, rap as being anti-, 15-16, 29- 31 drums, role of in African culture, 26 Dyson, Michael, vi, 7 "8th Wonder," 32 Eric B, 34 Essien-Udon, E. U., 43, 47 ETW,8 Eve, myth of, 72 Fanon,Frantz, 1, 2, 3,4 Farrakhan, Louis, 3, 41, 46-48; po- litical position of, 49-50 Fat Boys, 17, 34, 69 Fear...

... Original Anti-Slavery Songs are but a few of the antislavery song and hymn books published during the fervent years of the American antislavery movement. Now over a century removed from emancipation Eaklor's new book is the very first and only work on the subject ever published. Excellently researched...

..., Andrew. No Resped: lntelleduals and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 1989. The colloquialism "no respect" is appropriated by Andrew Ross to denote the traditional antagonisms that persist between popular anti-intellectualism and intellectual antipopularism (227). What is needed, he proposes...

... songbook, The Emancipation Car), whereupon he practiced law in Oberlin. During this time Langston became involved in Ohio's antislavery politics (he was the co-founder of the Ohio State Anti-Slavery Society) and was actively involved in the underground railroad (the "emancipation car") . Langston also...

... admitted to study theology at Oberlin College (Joshua Simpson was the first black to graduate from Oberlin College, in I 848 ). He completed his theologi- cal degree in 18 s3 (the year after Simpson's first antislavery song- book, Original Anti-Slavery Songs, was published) . After privately ...

... of Life. At first, our movement was entirely inter-denominational, non-sectarian and in spirit anti-sectarian. Our motto in this matter was, "Denominationalism is slavery." We stood for the communion of the Holy Ghost. We served in the denominations if allowed, but we served Christ in the life of His...

... agrees that the work of Tipper Gore has its place in making parents aware of what their children are listening to on albums and watching on videos. But he doesn't think anti-rock crusades should blind parents and ministers to the theological messages in some popular music.16 It is likely...

... antagonisms that persist between popular anti-intellectualism and intellectual antipopularism (227). What is needed, he proposes, is common ground, yet what is likely is the continued discourse of disrespect. Ross says that "in a society that is increasingly stratified by levels and orders of knowledge...

... Chicagoan co-literati, quietly contemplated, questioned, and attempted to discern the meaning and milieu of their metropolis. What their perceptiveness discovered about the dour realities that the European-immigrant poor faced in Chicagoits slums, severe working conditions, and anti-immigrant inclination...

..., Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1967), pp. 422-29. 5The Latin term communitas is borrowed from Victor Turner. See Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-structure (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977), p. 42. Singing in the Holy Convocation 21 the sacred that give rise and distinction to the holy people...

... to song and across various discourses of liberation theology and feminism. Not all of her songs are like "Open Your Heart" and "Like a Prayer." They highlight issues of race inconsistently, and economic justice and anti-imperialism are low priorities. In the realm of gender, many of her songs assert...

... (and continue to say) that to be pro-black is to be anti-Christian and even un-American. These kinds of voices responded to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s constructive, nonviolent direct- Ain't Gonna Study War No More 69 action method for equality with charges of communism. These same kinds of voices looked...

... about it-you can sing what would be death to speak.' So I began to write and sing." Of notice to this collection of unsung hymns is a song entitled "Freedom's Cause ," the opening piece in Simpson 's first published collection, Origi,nal Anti-Slavery Songs (1852). "Freedom's Cause" is seemingly the only...

..., The Symbolism of Evil, trans . Emerson Buchanan (Boston: Beacon, 1969), 73. 6 Bla,k Satred Musi, anti-establishment sentiment (for some white youths), but also has become a key to "the emergency of black" (for black scholars) and to freedom of speech questions (for some liberal whites). Who is to blame...