... two decades at the top of the pop music charts allow 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...

... 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...

...William C. Turner, Jr. © Copyright 1988 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1988 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...

...Jon Michael Spencer © Copyright 1988 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1988 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...

... © Copyright 1988 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1988 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...

...Houston A. Baker, Jr. Baker , Houston A. , Jr. Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic . Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press , 1988 . © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 Book Reviews 75 Dvorak sums up the apocalyptic...

...Willie J. Jennings © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 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...

...Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 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...

...Dwight D. Andrews Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 From Black to Blues Dwi.ght D. Andrews White folk don't understand about the blues. They hear it come out but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel good. You...

...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...

... and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1989. Theomusicology is no more interested in Joshua McCarter Simpson, the most prolific antislavery songwriter of moral abolitionism, than in John Mercer Langston, the black theologian and lawyer who was neither a songwriter nor...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Donald A. Petesch Petesch , Donald A. A Spy in the Enemy’s Country: The Emergence of Modern Black Literature . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 96 BladtSoaetlMusic mercialization of jazz by whites, who felt they could...

...Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Bruce , Dickson D. , Jr. Black American Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877–1915 . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 BooleReviews 53 aspect...