..., cantatas, oratorios, and black denominational hymnals, are assembled such culturally relevant genre as abolitionist song and hymnody. What follows is a list of new acquisitions. 1 NEW ACQUISITIONS Collections John Howardton Smith (1880-1977) Papers. Among the collectanea of this prolific hymnist are over...

... 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...

...Mary McLeod Bethune Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Lionel Hampton Beats Out New Rhythm for Civil Rights Fight Mary McLeod Bethune I am told that Lionel Hampton, the little orchestra leader who keeps our feet tapping with his drums and xylophones, has developed a new theme...

...William C. Turner, Jr. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Singing the New Song William C. Turner, Jr. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set m y feet upon a rock...

... of John Howardton Smith (1880-1977), an early twentieth century black hymnist, and Kenneth Brown Billups (1918-1985), St. Louis educator, choral conductor, and arranger of black spirituals. What follows is a list of books recently donated to the collection by the journal (JBSM). 1 New Acquisitions Allen...

...Mark Sumner Harvey Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 New World A'Comin': Religious Perspectives on the Legacy of Dulce Ellington Mark Sumner Harvey Nearly a decade and a half after the passing of one of our greatest composers, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, his music continues...

... Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Seled Bibliography Adorno, Theodor W. Introduction to the Sociology of Music, trans. E. B. Ashton. New York: Continuum, 1988. Altizer, Thomas J. Mircea Eliade and the Dialectic of the Sacred. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1963. Brantlinger...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Adorno, Theodor W Introduction to the Sociology of Music, trans. E. B. Ashton. New York: Continuum, 1988. Altizer, Thomas J. Mircea Eliade and the Dialectic of the Sacred. Philadel- phia: Westminster, 1963. Brantlinger, Patrick. Bread...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Bibliography Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, eds. Slave Songs of the United States . New York: A. Simpson, 1867; New York: Peter Smith, 1929. Ballanta, Nicholas George Julius. St. Helena Island Spirituals...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Select Bibliography looks Adler, Bill. Tougher than Leather: The Authorized Biography of Run-DMC. New York: New American Library, 1987. Elliot, Keith. Rap. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1987 . George, Nelson, Sally Banes, Susan Flinker...

... of Music . New York: Dover, 1962. Barthes, Roland. The Responsibility of Forms : Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation. Translated by Richard Howard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Originally published in French in 1982. Best, Harold M. Music through the Eyes of Faith . San...

... Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Books Received Braude, Ann . Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Wom en 's Rights in Nin eteenth Century America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. Broven, John. Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans. Gretna, La.: Pelican, 1988. Cachia, Pierre. Popular...

...-the conscious and the unconscious-that should (but usu- 1. Anthony Storr, The Essential Jung (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983), 20. 2. C. G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (New York: Pantheon Books, 1959), 275-89. 3. C. G. Jung, The Development of Personality (New York...

... and 1930. The jug band accompanying performances of Elder Richard Bryant, recorded in Memphis in 1928, were also among the early recordings which captured the sound of rural black Holiness music of the mid-South. Born in South Carolina and raised in New York City, Thermon Ruth was first exposed to Holiness...

... with other tongues" (glossolalia) .2 In addition to expecting new members to be Spirit-baptized, the established Pentecostal community maintains a strict code of personal conduct. One of the traditional ways black Pentecostals communicate this expectation to new members is through their praise songs. New...

... Press, 1972); Geneva Smitherman, "The Power of the Rap: The Black Idiom and the New Black Poetry," Twentieth Century Literature 19, no. 4 (October 1973): 260; Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press...

... an urgency to live fully. - Rev. Alvin L. Kershaw, "The Church Tower" (January 1956) Just recently I had the privilege of interviewing Mary Lou Williams on the occasion of the performance of her "Mass for Peace" by the Alvin Ailey Dance Group at New York's City Center. It was a most thrilling experience...

...Nelson George George , Nelson . The Death of Rhythm and Blues . New York : Pantheon Books , 1988 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Boolrlenews TS based its interest in both sacred and secular forms of music. Building upon this premise (pastiche), theomusicology...

... Evangelical Witness. Dobsonville, South Africa: Concerned Evangelicals, 1987. Cesaire, Aime. Discourse on Colonialism. Translated Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review, 1972. Diop, Cheikh Anta. The African Origin of Civilization : Myth or Reality. Edited and translated by Mercer Cook. New York: Lawrence Hill...

... was certainly never matched by our attention to our own pioneer music. Even today many people con­ demn American composers for imitating European methods, yet so ingrained is the habit of years that they unconsciously judge the new music by European standards! If we expect composers to forge ahead into new...