... be colored. But we must also look forward to the time when the orches­ tra itself will be such a splendid organization that world-famous soloists, irrespective of race, will deem it an honor to appear with it; and when a renowned guest conductor may enjoy working with it. Since so many artistic white people...

... forming quartets (there were only a few colleges in those days) singing all over the country for the cause of Negro education. Since the schools had to depend upon unreliable travel conditions, it was easier to have an all-male organization than a mixed one, and a quartet was cheaper than a glee club...

... from the President of The International Mark Twain Society inviting Smith to be an honorary member (alongside such notable honorary members as Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and Edgar Lee Masters, according to the organization stationary) . Said the letter: "Dear Mr. Smith: For your contribution...

... Grace ." SATB with Alto Solo. Burleigh, H. T., arr. Album of Negro Spirituals. Rockville Centre, New York: Belwin, 1969. - - - , arr. "Behold that Star Spiritual. SSA and Organ. - - - , arr. "Go Tell It On the Mountain!" Spiritual. SATB and Organ. - - - , arr. "I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon." (Arr...

...- The Folk Festival 209 tion. Each leader registers the name of his organization and his two or three selections. He is straightaway given his place number and checked to see if his songs are really Negro folk songs and not just hymns. While this is taking place, other groups are singing in the various...

... in the same manner, only perhaps by a different leader. Different districts or associations are frequently engaged in contests. No cause is more sufficient to start a contest than the casual boast of one leader in the presence of another or the avowed superiority of a rival organization. When...

... Ogbomosho, Nigeria. The organ was introduced by Western missionaries and is still used by many Western-originated churches. Dynamism in African Christian Music 21 community life and existential realities They are creative in worship, music, organization and self-support."22 Independent Christianity...

... in the history of culture in America, had achieved more than ordinary distinction. Others who might be named would be the Luca family, who were so successful that they were invited to and later did join with the then famous "Hutchinsons," a white concert-giving family, the combination forming an organization...

... in church-related organizations, personal religious experiences, and prayer (66) . He says Americans are more likely to pray daily than to attend church weekly (58). Previously, I have used a model developed by sociologist Bruce Reed in order to measure religious participation. Greeley's more numerous...

...." Autobiographical Sketch of Charles Price Jones 55 This He said six or seven times till it was fixed in my mind. I got up and went to the organ in the corner of the room, wrote a song titled "Praise the Lord," ruled off a tablet, set it to music, and sang it before I left the room. This song I lost, to my regret. I...

... to balance emotion and intellect in a transplanted environment. (2) A Bacchic situation emerges when the pattern of growth of the human species inherently bound up in the rhythms of organic life and all of its integral variations remains untutored, that is, independent of a definitive education's influences...

... as a weapon in the army of left-wing liberationists. Booleleviews BT People's Songs, Inc., was an organization built upon the long tradition of American protest singing dating as far back as antislavery abolitionism. Under the directorship of founding member Pete Seeger, People's Songs-during its three-year...

... movements of an emotional and disorganized nature that are ultimately futile in effecting change (13 ). The resource mobilization theory postulates that while discontent is always present in society, only the availability of resources from church and civic organizations is determinative of whether...

... discourse of story, is communicated from imagination to imagination by people bound in community (62-701 93). As a product of storytellers who use such story-idioms as music, poetry, art, drama, film, television, and romance to interpret and organize human experience, grace can be observed not only in "high...

... culture. To be Christian has come to be synonymous with being Western, and that means that our own cultural heritage is generally viewed as inferior, even pagan or evil by others as well as by ourselves. This situation throughout the continent is what led to the organization of this conference...

.... The spiritual does not make up the entire body of a church music program anymore, as it did twenty-five or thirty years ago in many sections of the country. The Negro church has become more and more literate and ambitious, and the ministers are becoming more capable in the matter of church organization...

... their usefulness. In Understanding Media Marshall McLuhan tries to lift blues out of its folk art traditions by claiming it was part of a large movement that arose to express a nostalgic yearning for organic unity. In his view, blues laments an Edenic wholeness that was lost after the invention of mechanized...

.... Bearing his interests in popular culture, he promptly founded the fournal of Popular Culture (owing to a subsidy from the university). Rapid development ensued, and in 1970 he founded the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. This organization, located at the university, supervises the Popular Press...

... Segeberg, Germany, April 16-18, 1993. The conference was organized by Thomas Butow, of the Akademie, and Bernd Schwarze, a contributor to this volume. This idea came to Schwarze after he read the proceedings to the conference titled "The Theology of American Popular Music," which I organized at Duke...

... be sung. 200 Black Sacred Music Unfortunately, some Negro singing organizations have evidently taken the singing of spirituals and jubilees as a matter of personal privilege. Seemingly in an effort to give a realistic presentation of the spirituals, they have attempted to depict the actions of Negroes...