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...Peter Kivy Kivy , Peter . Osmin’s Rage: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1988 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 BO BlodcSocredMwk giving would imply continuity of religious affiliation (67). He...

...Angela M. S. Nelson Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Text, Texture, and Context in Theological Perspective Angela M. S. Nelson In attempting to define folklore, Alan Dundes states that the definition must come from internal rather than external criteria, which led him in 1962...

... Jay Singers, 201, 202 blues, 25, 26, 28, 29, 51-65, 217,225, 226,240,244; defined, 51-52; respectable vs. lowdown, 62-64; scales in, I44; texts, 139-40; texts and tunes, 262-63 Boatner, Edward, 234 Bond, Horace Mann, 203, 204, 208, 209 boogy woogy, 42, 54, 217, 225; influence on blues, 42 Book...

... chapters of The Signifying Monkey to applying the theory to a very close reading of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Ishmael Reed, and Alice Walker. Although his interest here is in Afro-American literature, he suggests that the fundamental aspect of signifyin(g)-intertextualityis not limited to the criticism...

...- sikgeschichte: Festschrife far Guido Adler !Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1930), 9. Tnrcy O,apman 255 So far, it has been shown that musicology uses at least two distinct approaches-phenomenology and contextualism. Literary exegesis also uses these two distinct approaches - phenomenological analysis of the text...

...Clyde J. Steckel Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 How Can Music Have Theological Significance? Clyde f. Steckel The task of discerning and articulating theological meanings in music involves an analysis of both religious music and music that is not overtly religious by text...

..." constitute intertextuality-the interrelation of texts or discourses with other texts or discourses (44). While no single institution (master text) is the prime dispenser of culture-not the university and not prime-time television-the library, the location where texts materially intersect, is symbolic...

... the point of this vernacular theory of signifyin(g) has been fully defined and argued, Gates devotes the three closing chapters of The Signifying Monkey to applying the theory to a very close reading of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Ishmael Reed, and Alice Walker. Although his interest here is in Afro...

..., are assembled such culturally relevant genre as abolitionist song and hymnody. What follows is a list of new acquisitions. 1 NEW ACQUISITIONS Collections John Howardton Smith (1880-1977) Papers. Among the collectanea of this prolific hymnist are over 250 original gospel song texts. Most of the lyrics appear...

.... African Christian music, from the emphatic introduction of the Western hymn by missionaries to new texts of African self-expressive praise, is in a dynamic transition. Today's African Christian communities are in the processes of redefining and rediscovering a transforming, if not emancipated, spiritual...

... and the Quest for Freedom. New York: Lang, 1992. 246 pp. In 1945 Howard Thurman published Deep River, a groundbreaking text in which he registered the religious significance of the black spirituals. This text was followed in 1947 by The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death. Thurman's reflection...

...., have collaborated for a second time (The Black Church Looks at th e Bicentennial was their first effort in 1976) to produce a text of "public theology" that uses the role of the black church in the United States as the point of departure. The result is a helpful primer on African American Christian...

.... xxx, 177. In his book Blues and Evil, Jon Michael Spencer presses a sometimes controversial, often ignored argument-that there is an essential religious character to the blues. James Cone, in his groundbreaking text, The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation (1972), first suggested the intimate...

... rhythms, all of which give it a pronounced ethnic flavor. The accompaniment, which Mclin calls the "salt and pepper'' and the ''seasoning," supplies the harmonic interest (as throughout the mass). However, the music merely serves to complement the text which, as the most essential part of the mass...

.... This connection between the black church and blues folk suggests another question. Unlike the blues, why was the black church in its music and worship able to sustain a profound continuity in both its religious character and its southern ethos? This text is hampered by an absence of this crucial consideration...

.... But it is here at last, and we bespeak for it a much more gratifying reception than the first book had, though God has blessed it as he has. Jesus Only Nos. I and 2 contains 412 hymns, a little over one-third of which are comprised of text only with the meter given or tune suggested (or both). Of the 412 pieces...

... song-sermon in shorter form is the well-known "Who'll Be a Witness?" which tells the stories of Daniel and Samson. However, one that is in longer form may serve our purpose better. There are enough of these alone to create an entire collection. The text follows: De Han' Writin' on de Wall Now God got...

... for text and rhythm for mood, but a surprising tendency toward homophony or harmony of modem times. A popular idea of early church music conceives it as a tonal art, dubious of measure, key, and form, either a vague expression of man's regard for the supernatural or an elaborate embroidery of amazingly...

... by examining the thought of the African American thinker most often accused of not paying attention to the nexus between religion and social situation-Howard Thurman. Pollard's text seeks to answer Thurman's critics in this regard by positing the religious leader's activities as a form of "mystic-activism...

... discourse to represent acoustical phenomena. His text provides an easy target for deconstruction. Like positivism and its literary counterpart, formalism, musicology con- 4. Nathaniel Mackey, Bedouin Hombook (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 79. 5. Gunther Schuller, Early fazz: Its Roots...