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... him even today to be hailed as the "Godfather of Soul." The present concern is the period of his career when the revolutionary ethos of Black Power served as the critical point of departure for his religiously inspired and theologically imbued messages of black liberation and black pride. His "Say...

...Jon Michael Spencer A Bibliography of Sacred Music held by The Black Music Archive Compiled by Jon Michael Spencer The Black Music Archive was founded at North Carolina Central University in 1984 by Jon Michael Spencer with a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. It is presently located...

...Michael A. Battle The Kerygmatic Ministry of Black Song and Sermon Michael A. Battle On April 17, 1983 at the Howard University Rankin Memorial Chapel, I preached a sermon titled "Depth Songs." In that sermon I stated that frequently in life we experience situations to which the only appropriate...

...William C. Turner, Jr. The Musicality of Black Preaching: A Phenomenology William C. Turner, Jr. The Pervasiveness of the Idiom One who observes the Black Church from within the context of its life as a worshiping community is soon struck by the degree to which the preaching is musical...

...Jon Michael Spencer Isochronisms of Antistructure in the Black Holiness-Pentecostal Testimony Service Jon Michael Sperlcer Rite of Intensification The ritual of testimony commenced when the first of black spirituals asked, "Who will be a witness for my Lord?" and someone among that marginal people...

... From the Black Sacred Music Archive A Bibliographic Essay on Holdings Related to Black Holiness-Pentecostal Music The Black Sacred Music Archive, founded in 1984 with a foundation grant, is in many respects the entity out of which grew The Journal of Black Sacred Music. While the aim...

... Daniel." Boles, the editor, is a Professor of History at Rice University. Baker, Houston A., Jr. Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. In Baker's collection of essays the subjects of blues, jazz, and rap music are presented...

...Willie J. Jennings When Mahalia Sings: The Black Singer of Sacred Song as Icon Willie J. Jennings Icons and icon theology are for the most part foreign to Protestant Christianity, including the black church and black theology. However, iconic expression and icon theology, as they have been...

...Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Music as Cultural Expression in Black Church Theology and Worship Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. In 1898 W E. B. DuBois stated that the three key elements of the black church worship experience were the preacher, the music, and the frenzy. 1 His isolation and identification...

... as his equal and is, therefore, an honest extension of Stevie Wonder the man."4 He is, in Pareles' terms, a 1. John Pareles, "Rev. Stevie Wonder presents (Finally!) Psalms in the Key of Life," Crawdaddy (December 1976): 65. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. Black Sacred Music 3:2, Fall 1989. Copyright © 1989...

...Jon Michael Spencer Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction: 0 Black and Unknown Bards In the prologue to this hymnbook, James Weldon Johnson captures...

...William Cheek; Aimee Lee Cheek Cheek , William , and Aimee Lee Cheek . John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829–65 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 60 Blodc SoaedMusk not make the same...

...Michael G. Hayes Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 The Theology ol the Bla,k Penteiostal Praise Song Michael G. Hayes Black religious music and black theology are correlative in meaning. From the beginning, black music has sprung from black theology as a meaningful and life...

...Neil R. McMillen McMillen , Neil R. Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 BB BladeSomMIii# civil rights issues: "In spite of attacks by government, media...

...Edgar W. Schneider Schneider , Edgar W. American Earlier Black English: Morphological and Syntactic Variables . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 capacity "to transmit, disseminate, and render visible 'black...

...Cary D. Wintz Wintz , Cary D. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance . Houston : Rice University Press , 1988 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 JJ6 BlodcSondMlllk It's a mean black moan and it's lying front my door When I leave Chicago Lord I ain't coming back...

...John W. Roberts Roberts , John W. From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Boole Reviews 9T As racism persisted after slavery and the lacuna...

...Rebecca T. Cureau Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Willis Laurente James and the Preservation ol Blatk Religious Folk Song Rebecca T Cureau Willis Laurence James (1900-1966) is among a small group of black folklorists who have devoted themselves to the preservation of African...

...Carole Marks Marks , Carole . Farewell—We’re Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Boole lerieM 9 J has not examined such "interior" subjects as black musical or religious...