...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...

...Earlston E. DeSilva Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 ffte Theology olB/11,k Power and B/11,k Song: Jomes Brown Earlston E. DeSilva James Brown is an Afro-American performing artist and soul singer who reigned as "Soul Brother No. 1" during the sixties and seventies, and whose...

...Willis Laurence James Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Dedication To my mother Minnie Ellis James Washington who sang to me before my ears knew the sounds...

...Willis Laurence James Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Preface This book has been written after a long period of investigation, participation, and instruction...

...Rebecca T. Cureau Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction At the time of his death in 1966, Willis Laurence James had lived to see a gradual turning...

.... - - - , arr. "I'm Troubled" (Prayer Response). Xerox MS. SATB . Bibliography 71 - - - , arr. "In Bright Mansions Above." Spiritual. SATB and Keyboard. - - - , arr. "Lift Every Voice and Sing'' (By James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson). Anthem. SATB and Keyboard. - - - , arr. "Lord, I Don't Feel...

..., Creighton, 241 Clark, Maggie, 208 Clark, Mammie, 212 Clark University, x Clyde Steamship Company, 93 Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 168, 1801 230-31, 236, 237 Collier, N. W., 91 Cook, Will Marion, 46,232, 237 coonjine, 39, 41-42 Cox, Ida, 60 Craig, James, 44, 154-55 Cravath, Erastus, 242 Crawford, Portia Jenkins...

...," 27 Brown, H. Rap, 58 Brown, James, 101, 146; and black power movement, 57-58, 61, 6567; and music as evangelistic activism, 62-64; and performance, 59-61, 66; and racism, 58-59 Buber, Martin, 9 Burke, Solomon, 88 Call Me, 94 Camus, Albert: and bluesperson's defiance of heaven, 32, 43...

... and dances. Soul music is the populist application of bebop's aim: racial self-conscious assertion among black people in light of their rich musical heritage. The two major artists of soul music-James Brown and Aretha Franklinbridge the major poles in the Afro-American experience by appealing to agrarian...

... Star, 245 Armstrong, Louis, 52-53, 164, 290, 291 Arnold, Kokomo, 99-100, 101 Around the World in a Day, 2 51 Art Ensemble of Chicago, 54 As Nasty As They Wanna Be, 2 74 Asante, Molefi, 15-16 Ashford, Nicholas, 225, 285 Ashton, John, 123-24, 140 Aswell, James, 130-31 Auerbach, Susan,7 Babbit, 60 "Bad...

...James W. Button Button , James W. Blacks and Social Change: Impact of the Civil Rights Movement in Southern Communities . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Chatman's verses are made even more humorous...

... recrafting James's sentences and reworking his paragraphing was especially troublesome because before James's widow died in early 1994 I had made a promise to her. Through Cureau I had promised to maintain the overall integrity of James's scholarship, including his choice of lan- 1. Those drafts, along...

..., 18, 20, 23, 29, 34 Brown, James, 210, 211 Bruckner, Anton, 32-33 Brueggemann, Walter, 2 36 Buber, Martin, 173 Buhmann, Peter, vii, viii Buch der Hangenden Garten, Das, 184 Burrows, David, 52-53, 60-61, 62 Bush, George, 242 Bushnell, Horace, 132 Butow, Thomas, viii Cage, John, 103 Cara, Irene, 194...

... about blues belief and the longstanding church-blues dialectic. As a select few scholars gleaned filaments of theological thought from this journalistic data, headway was gained toward the documentation of black blues theology. James Cone was the first theologian to clearly perceive that black theology...

...Jon Michael Spencer James H. Cone . The Spirituals and the Blues . Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books , 1991 . 141 pp. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Book Reviews BS In his treatment of the inclusivity of official hymnals of EuroAmerican denominations, Spencer...

... Press, 1989. Buhmann, Peter, and Rolf Tischer, eds. Pop and Religion: Auf dem Weg zu einer neuen VolksfrommigkeiU Stuttgart, Germany: Quell Verlag, 1992. Cone, James H. The Spirituals and the Blues. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1972. Cox, Harvey. The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization...

... performers such as Dave Clark, King Curtis, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Solomon Burke, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and the Impressions were not only the offspring of the black church, but also products of the new independent record labels, black retail outlets, and the black radio stations whose...

.... Program Notes. The First Appearance in London of the Hampton Institute Choir. Queen's Hall. May 3, 1930. Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro : As Sung at Hampton Institute. Hampton, Va.: Hampton Institute Press, 1927. Review of The Book of American Negro Spirituals, ed. James Weldon John- son and J...

..., just prior to the outbreak of the Great War.7 For in my view, it is in the years 1912 and 1913 that three distinct modern musical trajectories were set in motion, each with unique musical and extramusical characteristics. Represented by Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and James Reese Europe...

..., and finally that the ethos of blues is thoroughly religious. If I can establish that the blues is theological and religious because it posits theodicies, then it is a short step to discover elements of sacrality and religiosity in all of blues' secular progeny-jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, and rap. If James...