... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Chapter IO Has the Negro Borrowed His Songs? The great volume of articles and books now being written on the subject of Negro music demonstrates the awareness that its inherent worth has generally awakened. It is doubtful if this folkloric...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Appendix of Negro Songs In making these additional songs part of this book, I have been interested in enriching the quantity of Negro songs with rare and, in most cases, heretofore unknown versions. The seculars are very rare, because seculars...

... 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...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 A Negro Symphony Orchestra Since 1937, when a Los Angeles publication mentioned the fact that one of my ideals is the realization of a Negro Symphony Orchestra so fine that it would rank with and perhaps surpass the best in the world, several...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 For Finer Negro Music No matter where I go, no matter to whom I talk, I am always asking for a better opportunity for the musical development of the Negro in America. For years it has been my constant plea that young persons especially be given...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 The Negro Musician in America Perhaps no group of participants in the entire history of music has been so greatly influenced by social, economic, and environmental factors as the American Negro. This influence has affected both the type of music...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Negro Music ín the Americas When Antonín Dvo ák came to the United States and announced publicly that Negro music should become the basis for a new school of American music, he caused a storm of discussion that has not yet abated, despite...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Are Negro Composers Handicapped? When the editor of The Baton asked me the question that appears as the title of this article, I wondered idly whether he expected me to reply with a fervent denunciation of existing conditions, or to sob out...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Serious Music: New Field for the Negro It has been equally a pleasure and a challenge to be colored and to be composing serious music in the United States: a pleasure, because it is exciting to be competing in a new field; a challenge, because...

...R. Nathaniel Dett © Copyright 1988 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1988 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...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 As the Negro School Sings The present high tide of interest in the Negro folk song is not, or should not be, without significance to Negro schools, especially those institutions dedicated to fitting the youth of the race for life work. Unheard...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 The Development of Negro Religious Music The recogmuon of development in religious Negro music was greeted with no such manifestations of encouragement as those which tended to make the exhibition of secular Negro effusions in Carnegie Hall so...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 The Emancipation of Negro Music There is hardly any folk music which so poignantly touches all the fundamentals of life as that of the American Negro. Though the worth of this music is not yet generally appreciated, even by the Negroes...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Negro Music In the discussion of a subject so specialized as Negro Music, one must take into account the effect of tradition; and though, when compared with the Old World, it may seem that America is too young to have many traditions of much...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Review of The Book of American Negro Spirituals This title is an incentive to conjecture. What should a book contain which is designed to be "the" Book of American Negro Spirituals; how should the matter be treated and what spirit should...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Review of Negro Workaday Songs As a Southern State North Carolina is well known for its unusual educational platform; its State University has also earned for itself an enviable reputation largely because of the work done by its Department...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 The Development of the Negro Spiritual I The period around 1850 in America represents one of the greatest anomalies of social history; for while thousands of Negroes were in the most abject slavery in the Southern States, where even attempts...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Helping to Lay Foundation for Negro Music of the Future To those of us who believe with Dvorak that "the future music of this country must be founded on what is called Negro melodies" it is gratifying to see the large number of composers who...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro I The Negro folk-songs in this volume are arranged in a sequence whose order differs, I believe, from that of any previous publication. The regarding of the songs as actual hymns makes such an arrangement...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 The Deft Collection of Negro Spirituals Whether the program be civic, religious, artistic, or commercial, there is hardly anything which is so certain of creating added interest and appeal as a group of well-sung Negro spirituals...