... by the person who sought to prove it an objective process. It must, of course, be admitted that there are composers whose works are products of the objective, or conscious mind. These are they whose creative efforts are governed by mathematical formulae; or those who impose upon themselves the limitations...

... Grant Still Music. 98 Black Sacred Music salaries or for the glory that might come to them individually. They should not forget about their music as soon as they leave the re­ hearsal hall, but, without being asked, take their scores home and practice alone until each detail is perfected. This must...

... when they must confront power. They stand when they confront wholesale destruction. They stand when their scrolls are burned. They stand when their call is challenged. They stand when strangers challenge their identity; when nobody else around them knows the Lord, they say; "I fear the Lord, the God...

... develop such sophisticated military weapons and yet we cannot win the so-called war on drugs. We ask: Is it because it is our minority communities that are affected most negatively? The "blaming the victims" that goes on both in North America and South America must be stopped. There is no peace. c...

... into their needs. This insight, one hopes, would lead to more faithful church programming, especially in Christian education. Those involved in this ministry are working with young people in the business of worldbuilding and the development of value and meaning. Therefore, we must raise questions of meaning...

... is music and what isn t music? One of our answers to those questions will come the future of contemporary music itself, also an amended creed for all composers, a creed which should be subscribed to by teachers, performers and listeners. Once it would have been enough to say that the composer must be true...

... with the permission of William Grant Still Music. On Orchestration 253 that a score of this sort displays visual evidence of skill. But one must not for a moment lose sight of the fact that the message of music can be comprehended only by man's aural sense. A florid orchestration is generally thick and indefinite...

... of preliminary work. To keep going, a Negro must be better prepared than anyone else. The day when things will be accepted because they are pretty good for a colored man is past. To reach the very top, a Negro has to fight not only the battles fought by everyone else in his profession (profes­ sional jealousy...

... of this contribution to the war effort. If we concede that films do educate people in this way, we must also admit that they create lasting impressions in other matters racial matters, for in­ stance. In this respect, the Negro has been, with a very few excep­ tions, on the losing end of the deal and, despite the rare...

... on Afrocentric premises," insists Asante, "is bound to lead to incorrect conclusions" (ro). In this respect, care must be taken to scrutinize the work of those in power who claim to be acting in the interest of the oppressed. Usually, says Asante, they are incapable of divesting themselves of Eurocentric views...

... a composer must have, then to tell you of my own approach to a new composition and of the steps taken in building the composition from its inception, illustrating this with excerpts from my Afro-American Symphony. What are the qualities which must be inherent in the person who aspires to write music? First...

...Robert E. Hood Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Thrills and Chills of Death Robert E. Hood For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. For he must reign until he had put...

... of its derogatory connotations. (It was a white man who named and thus defined the music as jazz; probably the same man who named us "nigger.11) Jazz is not a type or a style of music that can be defined, which would in reality impose limitations. It must not be. It must remain free! Jazz is the creation...

... practices must be placed in a wider cultural context that permits parallel £ea- 2 Lin Crew and Rap's Moral 'lisian 211 tures of that culture, like moral criticism, sage advice, or commonsense admonitions against out-of-bounds behavior, to enter the field of discussion. Failure to adopt such a viewpoint...

... portrayed themselves as saviors of bourgeois high culture, although only the most advanced, avant-garde works of art found favor with them. Not least, the culture shock on their arrival in the States must have caused the Frankfurt school members in exile to criticize mass culture as strongly as they did...

... it simply because I am colored. The day has passed when a colored man can do things that are "pretty good for a colored man" and be praised for them. Now he must take his place along with the finest in his profession no matter what their race and do as well as they. It is a challenge that the world throws...

... is committed to social involvement in the quest for social justice, the organization functions under the realization that any talk of bringing God's kingdom into this world must be accompanied by the action of addressing liturgical renewal (in the same way that this conference did). Rev. Jonah Katoneene...

... home; Far o'er the billows from all have been borne; Here is no rest; here's no rest. Here I must rise at the sound of the horn! Here is no rest! here is no rest! Go to the field e'en before day is dawned! Here is no rest! here's no rest! Here I must labor, and toil as a beast And when I murmer my task...

... abominable and murderers in the lake shall have their portion, Now many people who talk about Heaven must repent or change their notion. Yes, whoremongers and sorcerers and adulterers and liars shall burn in the lake we find , Now many of you people who talk about Heaven,just repent or change your mind. 2...

... but not apart from the subject at hand, so that a treatise such as this must take their work into the scope of its consideration. Their contributions, based upon Negro folk art, form a great and enduring fantasia wherein the voice, the written word, the piano, and the orchestra are used. Some...