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Black Sacred Music (1993) 7 (1): 56–61.
Published: 01 March 1993
...John Mendez Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 By the Rivers of Babylon (Psalm 137:1-4) fohn Mendez This 13 7th Psalm has become the anthem of suffering for struggling people throughout the world. This psalm of Israel was conceived and produced by the riverside during Babylonian...
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Black Sacred Music (1991) 5 (2): 81–83.
Published: 01 September 1991
... as a signal that one of their number was being helped to escape to freedom. IV. At the time the spirituals were springing into birth in America it is interesting to note what type of music was flourishing elsewhere. "As by the Streams of Babylon" features a solo voice against a soft chorus background...
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Black Sacred Music (1991) 5 (2): 133–138.
Published: 01 September 1991
... Conservatory of Music, 1 American Folk-Lore Society, 26 American Masters of Painting, 42 Anderson, Marian, viii, 3 Andrews, George Whitfield, 96 Arcadelt, Jacob, 76 "As by the Streams of Babylon," 82 "As Children, Walk Ye in God's Love," 73 "At a Georgia Camp Meeting," 10, 123 "Ave Maria," 77, 90 "Babylon's...
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Black Sacred Music (1994) 8 (2): 141–143.
Published: 01 September 1994
... to Maynor's solo performance with the Hampton choir in Carnegie Hall in April 1928. Edward Cushing, writing for the April I7 issue of The Brooklyn Eagle, said Maynor's soprano solo in Dett's arrangement of Thomas Campion's "As by the Streams of Babylon" was so striking that the piece had to be repeated...
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (1): 229–231.
Published: 01 March 1992
.... What Greenwood is really after is some indication as to whether the attendees of the Woodstock festival might have been in search of a primordial paradise, an ideal quality of reality long ruined by the sons and daughters of Cain, the builders of Babylon. From a sociological or anthropological...
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Black Sacred Music (1987) 1 (2): 47–74.
Published: 01 September 1987
.... Text only (1918). Photocopy. Bll, f9 Cain, Noble, arr.* Babylon is Fallen. Spiritual. SATB. bl4 Carter, John. Promised Land. SATB and Piano. b29 - - . Song of Praise. SATB and Organ. b29 Carter, Roland M., Betty Jackson King, and Wendell Whalum, arr. God is a God!: Six Negro Spirituals for Voice...
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 162–174.
Published: 01 September 1995
... of singing and much to the matter of perpetuating stereotypes. The Jews, while in Babylon, refused to sing their religious songs for the sake of mirth-making. This principle is not understood by everyone. Those who do not comprehend it must be led by those who do. ...
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 182–194.
Published: 01 September 1995
... an' you understan', King Belshazzar was a wicked man. God walked down in Babylon one night, You never did see such a wonderful sight. De han' writin' was on de wall, Has the Negro Borrowed His Songs? 187 Go git Daniel, he can read it all. 01' Daniel come an' read de sign, King Belshazzar den lost his min...
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Black Sacred Music (1988) 2 (1): 51–64.
Published: 01 March 1988
... gave forth no note of song. The Jew, captive by the river of Babylon, when asked for a song, hung his harp upon the willows and refused to sing the song of Zion in a strange land. But the Negro, snatched from the bosom of his native land, transported to distant shores, subjected to a hard bondage, so...
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 243–338.
Published: 01 September 1995
..., An' Lord have mercy on de human race. Now, go down angels an' consume de flood, Blow out de sun an' turn de moon ter blood, Den go back angels an' a-bolt de do', Time done been, won' be no mo'. You read in de Bible an' you understan', King Belshazzar was a wicked man. God walked down in Babylon one night...