...Martin Bauml Duberman Duberman , Martin Bauml . Paul Robeson . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1988 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Boole le'lliews 65 Duberman, Martin Bauml. Paul Robeson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Alumnus of Rutgers University and Columbia...

...Paul Robeson Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Paul Robeson Tells Why He Will Not Star in Orthodox Operas Paul Robeson Critics have often reproached me for not becoming an opera star and never attempting to give recitals of German and Italian songs as every accomplished singer...

... to argue against those aesthetes, such as poet Carl Sand­ burg, who felt that concert renditions of the spirituals should remain true to their folk idiom. Sandburg said he noticed a genuine and sanguine spirituality that emanated in Paul Robeson's renditions of spirituals that did not seem to be present...

... white people will go and hear Hayes or Robeson sing the Spiritual and the kindred "plantation" songs, and so get a pleasing impression of the Negro as an artist and a man, for every one hundred whites that may turn out to hear the Negro argue or speak in the most logical way in his own behalf. Religion...

... Rhapsody in Blue, 27, 115 Rising Tide, 6 Robbins, Jack, 3 Robeson, Paul, 15, 20, 43-44, 58, US Robinson, Earl, 20, 144, 145 Robinson, Vernon, 87 Robison, Willard, 2 Rodzi ski, Arthur, 19-20 Romance, 6 Ross, Allie, 210, 220 Rustin, Bayard, 224 Sahara, 131 Sahdji, 8 Saint-Georges, Chevalier de, 222 "St...

... not only those composers who arranged the spirituals as songs and choral compositions, but the many performers who gave realization to these artistic settings: Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Dorothy Maynor, Ellabelle Davis, and others who followed. Dvofak's intuition was proven right...

... York's ministerial congressman, Adam Powell, can do with a sermon what Paul Robeson does with "Othello." He can rock the walls. With talents like these in the church, I am a bit puzzled as to why it calls upon the theatre at all. But perhaps the theatre has something to bring religion. Certainly church...

... 1939 at New York's Town Hall. Roland Hayes, Paul Robeson, Clarence Cameron White, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen were among the famous blacks who were present for her highly successful entry into the professional world. After her Town Hall debut, interviewers pursued Maynor, often inquiring about...

... meanings," says Ross, is exemplified in Paul Robeson's career move from popular performer to critical politician (74). If the notion that commercialization makes music less genuine is describable as the "demonizing" of music, then the antithesis-the upward political mobility that commercialization permits_...

...Cain Hope Felder Felder , Cain Hope . Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family . Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 BookReviews 6T Soviet republic in the Deep South (359) . Robeson's theology was indeed a synthesis...

... them with my own experiences. Of course I had been told of Paul Robeson's political speeches during his concerts. I had also read, in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for April 13, 1917, an interview with Earl Robinson in which the following paragraph appeared: "In discussing Robinson it is almost...

..., Nat. "Paul Robeson ." Promotional brochure for Robeson album Scandalize My Name. B18 Johnson , Hal!. A Musical Tribute to Hall Johnson . Program. The Salem Methodist Church, New York, April 19, 1970 . B18 Joplin , Scott. Treemonisha . Record notes and libretto . B18 Kay, Ulysses. Jubilee. Opera...

...-Salem's own Dr. H . Rembert Malloy. And what more shall we say? For time would fail us to tell you about Malcolm, glorious Malcolm, or John Hope, Septima Clark, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, W. E. B. Du Bois, Emmett Till, Charles Houston, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, Richard Allen, Mary McCleod...

... of the Negro, xii, 16, 19; preface to, 56-67, 86 Reszke, Jean de, 127 Rhapsody in Blue, r 29 Rice, Thomas, 23 Ring,Montague, 32 Robeson, Paul, viii "Rocks and Mountains," r ro Roger Williams University, 54 "Roll, Jordan, Roll," 11 r Rolland, Romain, 56 "Room Enough," r ro "Run to Jesus," 105, r r r Russell...

..., 109-10 Record companies: Blue Note, 53, 54; London, 90; Motown, 76; Myrrh, 95 Redding, Otis, 88 Reed, Bruce, 9 Richie, Lionel, 102 Robert, Hugh, 15 7 Robeson, Paul, 84 "'Round Midnight," 54 Run-0.M.C., 143-46 passim Saar, Bettye, 101 St. Louis Jimmy (blues singer), 24 Sanford, John, 21, 22 "Say...

... technology with folk music in order to create a sound that is distinctively his. The creativity is found in using that blend to launch what might be the most profound, prophetic witness of any black artist since Paul Robeson. The creativity is in daring to use his crossover platform to preach his message...

... been imitated by practically all Negro singing artists, even when they do not sing them as well as they sing other works. Paul Robeson became famous as a specialist on Negro songs. Marian Anderson and Dorothy Maynor have given further security to this tradition by their performances, as well...