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...Jon Michael Spencer A Bibliography of Sacred Music held by The Black Music Archive Compiled by Jon Michael Spencer The Black Music Archive was founded at North Carolina Central University in 1984 by Jon Michael Spencer with a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. It is presently located...

...Eloise McKinney-Johnson Some Memories of Duke Ellington's Premier Sacred Jazz Concert: A Report Eloise McKinney-Johnson The Dean and Chapter of Grace Cathedral present this Concert of Sacred Music with thanksgiving to God and with gratitude to Duke Ellington and his whole company of artists...

...Willie J. Jennings When Mahalia Sings: The Black Singer of Sacred Song as Icon Willie J. Jennings Icons and icon theology are for the most part foreign to Protestant Christianity, including the black church and black theology. However, iconic expression and icon theology, as they have been...

...Eloise McKinney-Johnson Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Some Memories ol Duke Ellington's Premier Sacred Jazz Concert Eloise McKinney-fohnson The Dean and Chapter of Grace Cathedral present this Concert of Sacred Music with thanksgiving to God and with gratitude to Duke...

...Irene V. Jackson-Brown Tom Rankin . Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 1993 . 84 pp. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 116 Black Sacred Music down or dispensed with momentarily. In terms of women...

... years, the Sacred Concerts, considered by many to contain some of his best music. A recent concert performance of this sacred music in Symphony Hall, Boston, prompted me to reflect on the legacy of this cultural figure, indeed, on religious perspectives of that legacy which extend beyond Ellington's...

... in Theological Perspective. New York: Macmillan, 1966 . Dahlhaus, Carl. The Idea of Absolute Music. Translated by Roger Lustig. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Dillenberger, Jane. Secular Art with Sacred Themes. Nashville: Abingdon, 1969. Dixon, John W., Jr. Art and the Theological Imagination. New...

... From the Black Sacred Music Archive The Black Sacred Music Archive was founded in 1984 by the editor of The Journal of Black Sacred Music with a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Presently located at the Duke University Divinity School, its aim is to assemble for the use of faculty...

...Melva Wilson Costen Hildred Roach . Black American Music: Past and Present , 2d. ed. Malabar, Fla. : Krieger , 1992 . 368 pp. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 118 Black Sacred Music sacred and secular space, the photographs of church exteriors always include...

... From The Black Sacred Music Archive The Black Music Archive was founded in 1984 by Jon Michael Spencer with a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Presently located at Duke University, its aim has been to assemble for the use of faculty, students, and visiting researchers the published...

.... The Jook and its derivative forms compose the Jook continuum and appear to be related to rural bondsmen's religious activities, just as those activities are directly influenced by the African past. Dance, music, food, and alcohol are part of numerous West African sacred ceremonies. Certainly, African...

.... Black Sacred Music 8: 1, Spring 1994. Copyright© 1994 by Duke University Press. CCC 1043-945 5/94/$1.50 Musicology as Theologically Informed 31 especially since it was a conference on popular music, which implied to them music of prevailing secularity. "Religion and music, however surreptitiously...

...Jon Michael Spencer lnlrodudion I Philosophical Prolegomena lo Theomusicological Themat&ing ol lhe Nonsacred Theomusicology-musicology as a theologically informed discipline-is a musicological method for theologizing about the sacred (the religious/ churched), the secular (the theistic unreligious...

..., that all these musics share. They are all religious.112 This was a surprise to everyone, Bohlman said, especially 1. Philip V. Bohlman, "Is All Music Religious? " Criterion 28, no. 2 (Spring 1989): 22. 2. Ibid., 21. Black Sacred Music 6:1, Spring 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press. CCC 1043...

... of secularists to the rite and ritual of the Friday and Saturday night function. Its relocation to concert coliseums and music festivals includes weekly, annual, or seasonal excursions to sacred gathering centers where groups of people find themselves in more comfortable spaces. The purpose of these events...

... 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...

... and Morals, A Vindication of Plato, pt. 3 (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1928), 153. 4. ''New York Judge Says Jazz Music Cannot Be Indecent," Chicago Defender, April 2, 1932, 5. Black Sacred Music 6:1, Spring 1992. Copyright© 1992 by Duke University Press. CCC 1043-945 5/92/$1.50. 144 Black Sacred...

... From the Black Sacred Music Archive A Bibliographic Essay on Holdings Related to Black Holiness-Pentecostal Music The Black Sacred Music Archive, founded in 1984 with a foundation grant, is in many respects the entity out of which grew The Journal of Black Sacred Music. While the aim...

... lnstituof Technology. Black Sacred Music 8:1, Spring 1994. Copyright© 1994 by Duke University Pres CCC 1043-945 5/94/$1.50 Postmodern (Musical} Agonistes 119 William Butler Yeats penned these harrowing linesl in the wake of the Irish Easter Rising of 1916 and of what was then called the Great War...