...Willie J. Jennings © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 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...

... © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 From the Black Sacred Music Archive A Bibliography of Holdings on American Antislavery Song Founded in 1984 with a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the Black Sacred Music Archive presently contains over 750 music compositions, black...

...Rebecca T. Cureau Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Willis Laurente James and the Preservation ol Blatk Religious Folk Song Rebecca T Cureau Willis Laurence James (1900-1966) is among a small group of black folklorists who have devoted themselves to the preservation of African...

...Michael G. Hayes Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 The Theology ol the Bla,k Penteiostal Praise Song Michael G. Hayes Black religious music and black theology are correlative in meaning. From the beginning, black music has sprung from black theology as a meaningful and life...

...Robbie Lieberman Lieberman , Robbie . “My Song Is My Weapon”: People’s Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930–1950 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 nition to the religion so that its members...

...Mary L. Tate; Mary F. L. Keith Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 39 Song of Heaven 1 Some say they don't know where Heaven is, and can't locate it on the map, But the first Heaven and Earth shall passs away, this they had not thought of perhaps. John said he saw a new Heaven...

...Michael A. Battle © Copyright 1987 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1987 The Kerygmatic Ministry of Black Song and Sermon Michael A. Battle On April 17, 1983 at the Howard University Rankin Memorial Chapel, I preached a sermon titled "Depth Songs." In that sermon I stated that frequently in life we...

.... 0 Pharoah' s plantation's swallowed-up While I drink milk and honey in Canaan. I, I milk honey in Canaan! There is a Song in the Making Jon Michael Spencer "0 Hampton, We Never Can Make Thee a Song, Except as Our Lives Do the Singing" (Hampton Institute Alma Mater) 0 Hampton, there is now a song...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Chapter 2 Cries in Speech and Song I Animals are capable of giving out sounds from their mouths that represent meanings and varying degrees of the powerful urge for expression. These sounds separate into two categories: those that man makes...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Chapter 5 Imagery and Nature of the Work Song The work song has been the surveyor of the most famous and significant Negro legends. Here the great imaginative power of the black man is brought forth in all its untutored glory. Perhaps a truer...

...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...

...Earlston E. DeSilva Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 ffte Theology olB/11,k Power and B/11,k Song: Jomes Brown Earlston E. DeSilva James Brown is an Afro-American performing artist and soul singer who reigned as "Soul Brother No. 1" during the sixties and seventies, and whose...

...Joshua McCarter Simpson © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 BY JOSIWA 'l'tt'O SIMPSON, 22 Original Anti-Slavery Songs ., ORIGINAL ANTI-SLAVERY ,SQ:HGS,1· 23 24 The Journal of Black Sacred Music PREFACE. In offering my first little production to the public, I am well aware...

...Vicki L. Eaklor © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 Introduction to Joshua Simpson's Original Anti-Slavery Songs Vicki L. Eaklor By the year 1852 the political experiment called the United States had weathered several crises that had threatened its very existence. The most recent...

...Vicki L. Eaklor Eaklor , Vicki L. , American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis . Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press , 1988 . © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 Book Reviews Eaklor, Vicki L., American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis...

...Jon Michael Spencer © Copyright 1987 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1987 Freedom Songs of the Civil Rights Movement Jon Michael Spencer Adaptations of Traditional Spirituals There are two basic categories of freedom spirituals: ( 1) group participation songs often extemporaneously adapted from...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Chapter IO Has the Negro Borrowed His Songs? The great volume of articles and books now being written on the subject of Negro music demonstrates the awareness that its inherent worth has generally awakened. It is doubtful if this folkloric...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Appendix of Negro Songs In making these additional songs part of this book, I have been interested in enriching the quantity of Negro songs with rare and, in most cases, heretofore unknown versions. The seculars are very rare, because seculars...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Chapter 4 The Rise ol the Work Songs The philosophy, beauty, and grandeur of the Negro work song has been largely overlooked until very recently. This is the result of neglect, on the one hand, and circumstances inherent in the system producing...

...Langston Hughes Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Church, Theatre, and Gospel Songs Langston Hughes Walking down 135th Street in New York I saw two large placards, both in the same shop window, announcing church-theatrical entertainments. One placard read that one of Harlem's...