...Jacqueline Grant Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Ain't Gonna Study War No More (John 20:19-23) Jacqueline Grant We have the potential of becoming experts in what we study. Presumably, we study for proficiency and efficiency-to become better at one thing or another, to make...

...F. M. Hamilton Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 70 A Mighty Army I. We're 2. We 3. Tho' 4. When f a might- y ar- my, will raise our ban- ner, the bat- tie rag- es, the war is o- ver, ftf~~ march- ing on the field, float it in the breeze, fierce the con- flict be, and the vie...

... on through the world, and the triumphant ring of the music with its clarion call, seemed to me to offer an inspiring theme on which to build an American battle song embodying the ideals for which America entered war. . . . Since, with unhesitating alacrity, we have paraphrased lighter forms of Negro music...

... personalities so often portrayed in the past. All of these people have drama in their lives, drama that could be made into stirring films. Music for such films would naturally parallel their emotional content. Such an innovation would be a distinct contribution to the war effort. It would create increased...

... 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...

... put, slavery was not over. A different master-slave dialectic emerged in the context of the abject economic exploitation of the postbellum plantation. McMillen says, "In the accounts of both races, the plantation emerged as a remarkably resilient institution scarcely touched by either civil war...

... of the Negro before the war was already a familiar and welcome element in the life of the Northern section of America; and scarcely was the war over before the Colored American Opera Company appeared in Washington and Philadelphia, winning almost unstinted praise for the finished performance of its principals...

... of this genre of music in the post-civil war South. Because those who lived blueslife "behind the mule" and preached blues theology from behind their guitars were unable to (or did not care to) articulate their theology in the canons of the Enlightenment language, their religion was relegated to "invisibility...

... and gold mines were opened up and with them, a group consciousness among urban labour which evolved naturally from the broken phrateries. A series of wars had displaced peasants in their thousands and forced them to seek a living in the mines and in the rising war industry. Such labour migrations...

..., no. 2 (25 June 1945): 7, ii, 41. "Leopold Stokowski as I Know Him." War Worker 1, no. 9 (November 1943): 6, 8. "The Men behind American Music." Crisis, January 1944, 12-15, 29. With Verna Arvey. "Modern Composers Have Lost Their Audience; Why?" In William Grant Still and the Fusion of Cultures...

... Neither was American civil religion alive and well in the eyes of the hip cultus. Curtis says, "Dylan's attack on American civil religion in 'With God on Our Side' drew the battle lines in the sixties: Those who believed in the sacred also believed in The War, short hair, and asceticism. Those who...

... War; of African origin. Coonjine 2/4; 4/4 Sensuous, intense, rhythmic. Spread all over the United States until the middle of the twentieth century. Bumbo-Shay 2/4; 4/4 Loose-jointed, rather Old, obsolete; of African origin. fast. Bamboola 2/4 Wild and exotic. Obsolete in this country. Still found...

... Defender, The Pitts­ burgh Courier, and New York Amsterdam News. Some of his writ­ ings were published in such esoteric volumes as Rosicrucian Fellow­ ship Magazine, Counterpoint, and War Worker·, and such foreign journals as Musica (Bogota, Colombia) and Revue Internationale de Musique (Milan, Italy...

...-such as dance, poetry, art, and music-as a primary objective in their formation, they remained doctrinally similar in content to their parent churches.3 In fact, by the end of World War I, many of these African churches had grown very conservative and elitist and had attracted an educated African membership...

...," was written as the s11 piritual11 segment of the larger suite, which also featured a Dukish 11Work Song," "The Blues," and a set of dances. "Come Sunday" has a melodic grace and grandeur which immediately recalls the earlier pre- and post-Civil War spiritual types, yet is utterly recast in the Ellington...

... of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being tom asunder.s This twoness reflects the two larger worlds which black...

... Malawi . Although many of these old Ngoni hymns are now in the language of the Tumbuka people, in whose land they settled around 1820, they recall their old Zulu war songs of northern Zululand, from whence they migrated many decades earlier. 2 With the arrival of the Scottish missionaries around 1900...

... Fellowship Magazine, Counterpoint, and War Worker·, and in such foreign journals as Musica (Bogotá, Colombia) and Revue Internatio­ nale de Musique (Milan, Italy). He and Arvey also began writing for the syndicated press in 1942, using Calvins' News Service in New York, which touted itself as the first...

... as the Civil War, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and others, the peculiar quality of this contribution of the Negro to music was recognized. Within recent years, however, the attention given the melodies has assumed the proportions of a cult. Composers have transcribed them; there have been at least a few...

... a generation that must learn to sing the song that offers transcendence in the pit. I don't have to ask; I know that everything about Ivy League life isn't good. Many people born in the generation now reaching adulthood may not have endured the privation of the depression, the anxiety of the war years...