...F. M. Hamilton Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 84 My Home Is There @# ! f 1. Far , 2. Far 3. Yes, 4. Where 5. 0 I ! f. ~~ j r f far be- yond yon from this world of In that land of pain and aches are in that world of b~ ~ I I j r I shin- ing sun, sin and strife, pure de- light...

...John Howardton Smith Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 82 A Home across the Jordan l I am going there across the Jordan To that home so bright and fair, I am going there to live forever, For Jesus invites me there. Chorus I am going there, I am going there, I am going...

... is not an enemy but a welcomed transition that allows us to join our ancestors and the saints. Death in the black cultures of Africa and the Caribbean is a transition, the beginning of a journey where we are "going home!' Death is a continuation of life, except in a glorified state where we shall be not only...

... be, perhaps it is ideal for all of us to return home eventually, as did the prodigal son in Luke 15 (n-32). In Luke we read that the younger of two sons of a wealthy landowner took his inheritance and went into the world-a foreign land-and squandered it in riotous living. Eventually he had to sell himself...

... up in the South. I knew neither wealth nor poverty, for I lived in a comfortable middle-class home, with luxuries such as books, musical instruments and phonograph records in quan­ tities found in few other homes of this sort. All of this was the result of my having had the good fortune to have been...

... to the contrary, they defined their own somebodiness and realized that America was not their true home. Ain't it hard to stumble, When you got no place to fall? In this whole wide world, I ain't got no place at all. The blues feeling was not just a temporary "bad mood" that would soon pass away. The blues have...

... of unprecedented success in New York City. It was for this company that Stephen Foster wrote his "Old Folks at Home" (Swanee River), "My Old Kentucky Home," "Old Black Joe," and other well-known songs. Foster was a frequenter of Negro camp-meetings and an assiduous student of Negro music. 1 Though devoted...

... that home above, Where I shall meet my mother some glad day. 3 Within the old home-place, her patient smiling face Was always spreading comfort, hope and cheer; And when she used to sing to her eternal King, It was the song that angels loved to hear. 4 Her work on earth is done, the life-crown has been won...

... persists today amidst "inner-city" housing in large urban areas. Sylvester Monroe, in his book about growing up in the Robert B. Taylor Homes in Chicago during the sixties, tells of living conditions somewhat similar to those of the southern ex-slaves: the themes of despair, poverty, and being caged...

... of a saintly sister they sang: My sister's took her flight an' gone home, An' the angel's waitin' at the door. It was the angels that would come and convey the righteous to the better land. This is set forth in "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," that hymn which Mr. Gladstone always called for when the singers sang...

... and gives the benediction. The final chapter is extremely complicated and requires some basic knowledge of African traditional ritual and the continuity of African ritual in the New World. In this chapter the author recapitulates his thesis, driving it home one last time: "Afro-Baptists in central Texas...

... on the album was composed by them. The album was engineered by Kenneth almost entirely in his home studio. The percussion was simulated by a rhythm machine, the music computerized, recorded onto diskettes, and then transferred to a 24 track recorder, onto which vocals were subsequently added and mixed...

..., vii, 125 "Ho, Every One that Thirsts," 111, 126 Holland, Justin, 1 16 "Home, Sweet Home," 25 Hughes, Langston, xii Hutchinsons, The, 11 5 "Hyinn to the Trinity," 71 "I'll Never Tum Back No More," 88 "I'm a-Rolling," 110 "I'm Going to Travel," 75, 81 "I'm Troubled in Mind," 61 In the Bottoms, 4...

... forced to spend the night in the apartment of a white acquaintance. The fol- lowing morning "Leadbelly" overheard the landlord caustically complaining about their presence. Later he oppugnantly responded by composing his "Bourgeoisie Blues": Home of the brave, land of the free- I don't want...

..., with the sun shining brightly above her, she lifts her son up to the sky and then carries him home. She lays him in his bed, takes her wedding dress and ring to the pawnshop and returns home with good cold cash. The story of the young mother, holding her son in the waters of the river under the bright sun...

... in the skies. Listen to her pleadings, "Wandering boy, come home," Lovingly entreating, do not longer roam; Let your manhood waken, heav'nward lift your eyes; If you love your mother, meet her in the skies. 2 Now the old home, vacant, has no charms for you; One dear form is absent, mother, kind and true...

...F. M. Hamilton Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 27 Will You Be There? 1. When the saints are march- ing o the home of the blest, 2. When the an- gels shall o- pen the pearl- y gates wide- Wf }"1 lt"f JflJ.1'a "f 1 "f I II To the man- sions in re- gions fair , With re- Wei- come...

..., one of these songs, "All My Sins Done Taken Away," was the first Negro folk song I can remember having learned as a child of about six in Pensacola, Florida. It was learned from another small Negro boy who brought the cows to pasture next to our home every morning. Since he always came singing...

... Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Index of Titles and First Lines A Call to Service 31 A dancing ray of sunlight 78 A Home across the Jordan 82 A Mighty Army 70 A Prayer 37 A Surrendered Life 68 A warp ofjoy and a woof of sorrow 76 An Angel Rolled the Stone Away 81 After...

... Lawd, hit soun' lak thund-er, J, .P ~ I When mah ham-mer fall, _ __ When my ham -mer_ fall! 11 De Railroad Line's Mah Home It seems to me that the title of this song expresses an affection for a job and occupation far beyond what is generally expected to be found in the hearts of steel-driving men...