...N. Lynne Westfield; Harold Dean Trulear Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Theomusicology and Christian Education: Spirituality and the Ethics of Control in the Rap of Hammer N. Lynne Westfield and Harold Dean Trulear In his important essay "On Afro-American Popular Music: From...

...Jon Michael Spencer Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. lnlrodudion I Philosophical Prolegomena lo Theomusicological Themat&ing ol lhe Nonsacred Theomusicology...

...Jon Michael Spencer Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Prelate Theomusicology-musicology as a theologically informed discipline-is a musicological method...

...Jon Michael Spencer Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Musicology as a Theologically Informed Discipline Jon Michael Spencer In an essay in this issue originally published in a theological journal, ethnomusicologist Philip Bohlman raised a theomusicological question that derived...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. lntrodudion In an essay published in a theological journal, ethnomusicologist Philip Bohlman raised a theomusicological...

...Jon Michael Spencer Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Con,lusion The caption of an article in a local newspaper announcing the First Conference in Theomusicology at Duke University's Divinity School read, "Divinity School Conference To Look for Theology in Popular Music."1...

... Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Preface Why do we not simply throw in the towel and give up on the idea of developing a new discipline called theomusicology...

... have termed this kind of theologizing theomusicology. This theologically informed musicology, which I will detail more definitively in the introduction, is a discipline I started developing while a visiting professor at the Duke University Divinity School from 1986 to 1990. During the fall semesters...

... totalization of the African being-at-the-center of his or her existence" (I2 5). Asante's further definition and application of the Afrocentric Idea as it relates to his particular interest in African-American orature is instructive to theomusicology as it, in the context of African diaspora cultures, seeks...

... "bidialectalism") is best denoted as vernacular-"Black English Vernacular"-rather than dialect (13, 7). The body of Schneider's book is an analysis of morphemes and linguistic constructions found in Earlier Black English. His treatment of the unstressed verbal prefix a- is instructive of how theomusicology can...

... and to dance, "a-shoutin'" may very well signify the more trenchant of the two, namely, danced religion. Theomusicology would have to discern whether this is true or not. The point is that the preverbal a- seems to be interpreted today as an intensifier. This interpretation is supported by the fact...

... of the black race in the blues and in folk tales probably reveals a much deeper issue that theomusicology must seek to disclose. Because of the correlations between these genres, a comparative study of the iJlues and the vast corpus of collected folk stories will best broach the mask of wit and the mantle...

..., black writers of every generation have in various ways read and revised black music, incorporating its moods, methods, rhythms, and lyricisms. Black writers have literally signified upon black music, which is why theomusicology must also cast a sideward glance to the parallel traditions of black...

... of theomusicology. In the twenty years of the PCA's existence, theomusicology has been present in spirit, if not in fact. Bruce, Dickson D., Jr. Black American Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution ol a Literary Tradition, 1877-1915. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Dickson Bruce examines...

...). It is instructive to theomusicology to recognize that there are valid and respectable ways to interpret or read music as representational as the discipline theologically examines not only the music performer and listener, but also the composition itself. Laguerre, Michel S. Voodoo and Politics in Haiti. New York...

..., embarrassed by voodoo, desire greater "civility" in their society. Third, the Catholic church is pressuring the government to outlaw voodoo, in part because it perceives it as unfriendly competition and intolerable (r 9). The study of voodoo offers theomusicology an opportunity to broaden its field...

... the pseudo- and semireligious expressions of civil religion. Theomusicology cannot limit its search for revelations of the sacred and reflections on the ultimate to the church. Indeed, the Bible may be as much an icon outside the church in popular culture as it is within the church. What Marty's Religion...

... psyche and diffused throughout intellectual thought, social customs, and popular culture. Thus theomusicology must take care to observe the subtle traces of sacralization and secularization in all genres of music today. Where it appears in any form of music or scholarship as a negation of black people...

..., 1993 . - -. Protest and Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990. - -. ed. The R. Nathaniel Dett Reader: Essays on Black Sacred Music. Special issue of Black Sacred Music : A fournal of Theomusicology 5, no. 2 (fall 1991). - - , ed. Sacred Music of the Secular City: From...

... became the first black writer to create a literature of skepticism and despair (90). Dunbar was the literary bluesman of the Nadir. Hence, theomusicology can follow the use of the spirituals and the blues in each new generation of black protest, and in each epoch of new music; theomusicology can also...