... 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...

..., they possess a beauty not dependent upon training and voice, they offer a wealth of truly fine religious songs. Because of their very simplicity, perhaps, they seem as appropriate in the service of Solemn Evensong as the Plainsong Magnificat which follows them, and the use of two 42 Blodc Sac,e,IMusk...

.... Perhaps it is his conscious mind that sounds a warning, noting that things do not follow each other in natural sequence, that there is too much or too little of this, that or the other, or that transitions are clumsy. Or perhaps it's the subconscious that detects the lack, after years of study...

... even to the ordinary mind. The Negro's religious spirit has created other agencies and forces which will perhaps do more than any merely commercial or political or purely economic powers to solve his problem in the United States, and in the world. Take the one product of music; cut off from his...

... be a beacon light To lead men to the Lord. 3 Perhaps some may turn to the Lord Perhaps some will repent And then with joy receive the Word The message He has sent. Words:.John Howardton Smith REPENTANCE AND CO NVERSION ...

... imagery, that self is forever Catholic. Hence, the popular rock star Bruce Springsteen, perhaps without knowing or understanding it, is a Catholic meistersinger. This essay is the third and final installment of an investigation I began last summer of the relationship between religious imagination...

... to be committed to violence as a means for keeping their unjust ideas of human relationship intact. The more civilized but still unjust methods of government officials, under the guise of "law and order," were no less violent and no less warlike. Oppressors have always studied war well. Perhaps it could be argued...

... With God's most Holy Word That it may be a beacon light To lead men to the Lord. Perhaps some may tum to the Lord Perhaps some will repent And then with joy receive the Word The message He has sent. ...

... With God's most Holy Word That it may be a beacon light To lead men to the Lord. Perhaps some may tum to the Lord Perhaps some will repent And then with joy receive the Word The message He has sent. ...

... in themselves onto the blues and onto those who sing and listen to the blues. They then call the blues evil or "devil's music" and consider the blues singer to be working for the devil. Perhaps it is true that the people who left the church to sing the blues were not forced to leave that protective sanctuary...

...James Weldon Johnson Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Now We Have the Blues James Weldon Johnson When I wrote an essay on the Negro's Creative Genius as a preface to "The Book of American Negro Poetry:' I made what was, perhaps, a startling statement by saying that the Negro...

.... Drawing perhaps on some misty notion of ancient Russian rites, a mythic pagan ceremony is portrayed which celebrates the elan vital, spontaneous emotional life. And as Eksteins continues: "Art, in this outlook, is a life force; it has the invigorating power of religion; it acts through the individual...

... by Duke University Press. CCC 1043 -9455/89/$1.50. good, emotional, and entertainment listeners, 1 it is the resentment listener who is perhaps the most seriously affected by Prince's unorthodox theological propagations. The resentment listener is one who listens to an avante garde or revolutionary music...

... music as a conduct of prophetic witness. While Jones does not deal directly with music, he does acknowledge the centrality of worship to the struggle for black wholeness. Perhaps the book's greatest value lies in the significance of its authors themselves. They write with scholarly insight...

.... Conjai Babete Allegretto moderato ' I ). I ~- ~ ; ; I r· Con jai Ba-bete con jai ) I~- ~ ; ~ Ir con jai Ba-bete con jai! I I. According to Lorenzo Turner, eminent authority on African language survivals in America, the word kanja means "ginger" in Gullah. Perhaps the ginger is reflected in the spice...

... Music. 134 Black Sacred Music thing or someone they don't like, they cannot be bought. Their reac­ tions are immediate, apparent, and lasting. There are well-publicized artists who are engaged for perhaps half a dozen concerts a year, while others, less well-known, have no trou­ ble in being booked...

... the institutional knowledge-making of black studies and the streetwise strategies of hip-hop. But what he enacts instead is a kind of nervous foray into a music with which he is not completely comfortable, at least when it gets down to details. Perhaps it is a generation gap-the blues generation meets the hip-hop...

...). Doubtless this was Langston's m~thod of rebelling against slavery, which undermined black personhood. In summarizing Langston's praxis-oriented and legalistically informed theology-a theology probably not learned at Oberlin but perhaps shared by Simpson-the authors comment that as black organizer...

... with music, he does acknowledge the centrality of worship to the struggle for black wholeness. Perhaps the book's greatest value lies in the significance of its authors themselves. They write with scholarly insight but they are first and foremost preachers, pastors who are "insiders" to the processes...

.... In the history of popular music, these truths are self-evident" (108 ). While "rhythm and blues" was literally a metaphor for black people, renaming it "rock and roll" in the fifties was naught but a marketing ploy to steal black music and conceal its black roots (67). The term "rock and roll," then, is perhaps...