...Jon Michael Spencer Michael W. Harris . The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church . New York : Oxford University Press , 1992 . Pp. xxiii , 324. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 88 Black Sacred Music Michael W. Harris...

... to aspire! And when En­ gland's Samuel Coleridge-Taylor won the respect of all the world with his serious works, he gave an incentive to many of us. After that, we learned of American Negro pioneers in the serious field: like Harry T. Burleigh, J. Rosamond Johnson, John Work, Florence B. Price, Clarence...

... Baptist Church, 166, 330 Bullock, Benjamin F., 177 bum-boats, 42-43 burden line, 101 Burleigh, Harry T., 168, 184, 226, 231-32 Byrd, William, 192 Byron, L. B., 214 Bywaters, L. R., 203 Cain, Noble, 239 Calhoun College, 242 342 Black Sacred Music Calhoun Plantation Songs, 239, 244, 326 call and response...

... was the late Harry T. Burleigh. There was a man who could create beauti­ ful music of his own. His more than two hundred songs include "Jean" and "Little Mother of Mine" which found permanent places in the repertoires of many famed concert singers. Had he wished to do so, Dr. Burleigh could have gone on all...

... music, 102, 103, 260 Bonds, Margaret, 119 Bontemps, Arna, 9, 15-16 Boswell, Connie, 118 Brahms, Johannes, 115, 138, 184, 257 Braithewaite, Coleridge A., 33 Brice, Fannie, 120 Bridgetower, George, 222 Brooks, Dudley, 119 Brown, Ivor, 263 64 Bruce, Richard, 8 9 Burleigh, Harry T, v, 7, 91, 139, 140...

... 39 ' TMI SELAH JUBILtli SINGERS The Selah Jubilee Singers circa 1944. Top to bottom: Thermon Ruth , Nathaniel Townsley, J. B. Nelson , Norman Harris , Melvin Coldten. Courtesy of Doug Seroff and Thermon Ruth. 40 The Journal of Black Sacred Music porated, Dick Campbell, and he told me that a lot...

... Falling," 82 Bach, Johann Sabastian, rn9, 119 Barrett, Harris, 26 Beecher, Henry Ward, 25 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 74, 80 Bekker, Paul, 70, 76 Belgian Royal Band, 3 Bennett College, 2 Bethune, Thomas Greene, 115 Bingham, Henry, 57 black church, 23, 69, 99; spirituals arranged for, 17; spirituals...

.... New York: G. Schirmer, 1925. Bolton, Dorothy G., and Harry T. Burleigh. Old Songs Hymnal. New York: Century, 1929. Chappell, Louis W. [ohn Henry: A Folk-Lore Study. Jena: Walter Biedermann, 1933. - - . Songs and Tales from the Dark Continent: Recorded from the Singing and Sayings of C. Kamba Simango...

... by an American Negro, James A. Bland. Then, although my opening paragraphs indicated that the "St. Louis Blues" is not known to every single person in the world not even to every musician still, one must admit that its popularity has not lessened during the many years it has been before the public. Harry T...

.... Goreau, Laurraine. Just Mahalia, Baby. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1984. Harris, Sheldon. Blues Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary ofBlues Singers. New York: Da Capo Press, 1979. Keil, Charles. Urban Blues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966. lead Me, Guide Me: The African American Catholic...

... proof of the accomplishments blacks could attain. The immediate benefits of Dvofak's stay in the 1890s included his contribution to the education of Will Marion Cook, who was to open the doors of musical theater to his compatriots, and Harry Burleigh, who fixed the spiritual as art song. In the next...

... as an artist in the tradition of Harry T. Burleigh, Clarence Cameron White, and R. Nathaniel Dett. Although he utilized musical forms associated with the European classical tradition, he was highly conscious of traditional African-American vi Black Sacred Music music and culture as the source of much of his...

... for many of the biggest bands in the business, among them Harry James, Ben Bemie, Artie Shaw, Freddie Martin, Charlie Spivak, Abe Lyman and Raymond Scott. Their styles blend so easily that they claim once to have carried on a continuous "swingshift" in making arrangements in Chicago, when they had to turn...

... Mwale, Emmanuel, 4, 50, 53 Mwanda-Bagenda, Sandra, 4 Mwesbongorere Mukama, 35 Namaundi, Joe, 4 Ncozana, Silas, xiii, 7, 8, 91 ro, 11, 12, 30, 32, 38 Ndhlovu, Japhet, 4 Ndomondo, Canon, 4 Ngwale, Harry; 4 Nicua, Jorge, 4 Nsama, Emmanuel, 4 Nyungwe Catholic Church, 20; photos of, 41 -45 Okano, Antonia...

... Muwowo Emmanuel Mwale Sandra Mwanda-Bagenda Joe Namaundi Japhet Ndhlovu Canon Ndomondo Jorge Nicua Harry Ngwale Emmanuel Nsama Antonia Okono Luckio Otieno Eustice Rutiba Marie Rempel Sylvia Semugoma Chris Sikukuu Mercy Sikwese Jon Michael Spencer Fackson Tanyanyiwa Arnold Temple Grace Turyamusiima Daniel...

... Anderson, Clarence Cameron White, Harry T. Burleigh, and Roland Hayes. In 1928 the music department developed to the point that it began offering a bachelor of science degree. The famous soprano Dorothy Maynor entered the department as a student the following September. Two years later, in summer 1930, she...

... of claiming that there were no Negroid themes or treatments in the latter's own "New World" Symphony. This claim, in turn, is amply disproved by the writings of Mr. Harry T. Burleigh, a colored man who was the source of Dr. Dvorak's acquaintance with American Negro music. The Negro has influenced music...

...). Gospel. - - , arr. "Coming Up On the Rough Side of the Mountain" (By Rev. F C. Barnes). Gospel. Piano and Voice. - - , arr. "Everybody Ought to Praise His Name" (By Curtis Wilson). Gospel. - - , arr. "Everything Will Be Alright." Gospel. - - , arr. "A Follower of Christ" (By J. W Harris). Gospel. Piano...

... Guns 'N' Roses, 277 Guralnick, Peter, 102 "Gypsy Woman," 213-14 Hall, Vera, 91 "Hallelujah, I Love Her So," 203 Hamer, Fannie Lou, 211 Hammer, M. C., 270 Hancock, Herbie, 289, 290 Handy, W c., 40 "Harlem Blues," 62 Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, 286 Harper, Lucius C., 33 Harris, Major, 286 Harris...

... stories to the children of the South, both black and white, before Joel Chandler Harris collected the tales under the title of "Uncle Remus Stories" and made them a permanent part of American literature. The Negro was extremely fortunate in having as his amanuenses persons who, in addition to their other...