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...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...

...Stephen H. Martin African Church Music: The Genesis of an Acculturative Style Stephen H. Martin* One area in which Western influences have been deeply felt in African culture has been in the development of music in the Christian Church. In the initial sending of Christian missionaries to Africa...

...R. Nathaniel Dett The Development of Negro Religious Music R. Nathaniel Dett R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) came under serious scrutiny for '·developing'· into anthemic form an indigenous American music believed to be genuine only in its primitivity. On April 21, 1930 came a correspondence from...

...Charles Price Jones Inductive Lessons in Vocal Music Charles Price Jones Below is the opening segment ofCharles Price Jones' two-part essay, "Inductive Lessons in Vocal Music," which closes his second collection of hymns, Jesus Only, Nos. 1 and 2, published in 1902. Although the second part...

... 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...

...Donna McNeil Cox Contemporary Trends in the Music Ministry of The Church of God in Christ Donna McNeil Cox On the Cutting Edge of Musical Development Plan a visit to Los Angeles and ask almost anyone who has lived there during the last five to ten years to recommend churches which...

...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...

...Bettina L. Knapp 74 The Journal of Black Sacred Music that the political songs still embodied a Christian element in synthesis with American nationalism (p. 412). Principally sung at antislavery conventions, rallies, picnics, and churches to boost the morale of the despised and scorned...

...Richard E. Wimberley Propheq, Erolicism, ond Apoco/yplicism in Popa/or Music: Prince Richard E. Wimberley Prince Rogers Nelson has been an anomaly in the music industry during the 1980s. A charismatic leader of cult-like proportions, he panders to no one. His erotic mysticism and prophetic vision...

...Jon Michael Spencer II God in Secular Music Cullure: 1'1te 1'1teodicy ol llte Blues as 11,e Paradigm of Proof Environmental disruptions are not perceived as being "evil11 until they adversely affect human interests, particularly the interests of the disinherited, who already face the preponderance...

...Harold Dean Trulear Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 The Prophetic Chorader olBlock Secular Music: Slerie Wonder Harold Dean Trulear While ferreting through background and secondary materials for this essay, I came across a review article in the December 1976 issue of Crawdaddy...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis 77 Music 1 Under the toil and the striving, Under the sorrow and stings, Alway serene, aye persistent, Something in every heart sings. 2 And erst a grand oratorio Into life's harmony swells,Erst a song, plaintive and tender, Up from a slave's bosom wells. 3 Or in the high...

..., dancers are usually ushered to the front of the church where they not only dance in a central location, but also engage in synchronous choreography. The choreography of the shouters is further synchronized by the "shout music" provided by a band consisting of instruments ranging from keyboards and drums...

...Jim Curtis Curtis , Jim . Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954–1984 . Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press , 1987 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Boolelleriews 63 ence" (60). The "real" in contemporary cultures...

...-American speech, literature, music, and dance are essential parts of nommo. Nommo creates 1. See Roger D. Abrahams, Deep Down in the fungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia (Chicago: Aldine, 1970); Thomas Kochman, "Rapping in the Black Ghetto," Transaction (February 1969): 26...

...Cornel West Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 On Afro-American Popular Music: From Bebop to Rap Corne] West The salient feature of popular music in First World capitalist and Third World neocolonialist societies is the appropriation and imitation of Afro-American musical forms...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Spirituals, Blues Important Se ion of American Music Nowadays the history of Negro music, chronicled by able musicolo­ gists, is available to every student who wishes to visit his public library There he may learn dates, names of all important...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 The Music of My Race More than 45 years ago, when the Czechoslovakian composer, Antonin Dvo ák, arrived in the United States as a professor, he amazed the country when he said and wrote that black music could be the basis of an important...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 The Men behind American Music Several years ago, the director of music in the public schools of Washington, D.C., wrote a pamphlet on American music in which he said that a certain Virginia-born white composer "understands and interprets...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 The Negro and His Music When one discusses the Negro "stereotype" he speaks of something that colored people have been fighting for many years something that extends to almost all art-expressions in which colored people are portrayed. Films, up...