...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...

...Robert M. Shelton Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Doing Theology with Willie Nelson Robert M. Shelton The eminent theologian Karl Barth writes in his renowned Church Dogmatics: "Dogmatics is the self-examination of the Christian church in respect of the content...

...Willis Laurence James Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Dedication To my mother Minnie Ellis James Washington who sang to me before my ears knew the sounds...

...Rebecca T. Cureau Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction At the time of his death in 1966, Willis Laurence James had lived to see a gradual turning...

...Willis Laurence James Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Preface This book has been written after a long period of investigation, participation, and instruction...

...Willie James Jennings Jon Michael Spencer . Blues and Evil . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , 1993 . Pp. xxx , 177 . Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 128 Black Sacred Music ate transliteration of his thinking or exposing the problematic nature...

... or familiar operatic airs into pleasing piano pieces. Tire Double Goal I next studied with Oliver Willis Halsted at his Conservatory in Lockport. He was my first teacher to throw light upon the serious study of music. He made me realize my musical deficiencies. He had me divide my work into two branches...

...Willie James Jennings Mozella G. Mitchell , ed. The Human Search: Howard Thurman and the Quest for Freedom . New York : Lang , 1992 . 246 pp. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 124 Black Sacred Music Mozella G. Mitchell, ed. The Human Search: Howard Thurman...

... © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 Contributors Vicki L. Eaklor. Ph.D., is a Professor of History in the Division of Human Studies at Alfred University. She is author of American Antislavery Songs (Greenwood Press, 1988). Willie J. Jennings, M.Div.. is a Baptist minister...

...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...

... Holiday Quick Step, r 14 Holidays Symphony, II? Holt, Nora Douglas, 209 "Holy Intellect," 214 Honeymoon Lane, 140 Horkheimer, Max, 92, 95 Horton, Willie, 242 Houston, Whitney, r 9r Huckleberry Finn, 249 Hugo, Valentine Gross, 181 Hulsether, Mark, viii hymnology, vii; compared to theo- musicology, 55-56...

..., 1984. Watkins, William Hauck. All You Need to Know about Rappin'. Chicago: Contempo- rary Books, 1984. look Chapters Baber, Ceola Ross. "The Artistry or Artifice of Black Communication." In Expressively Black: The Cultural Basis of Ethnic Identity, ed. Geneva Gay and Willie L. Baber. Westport, Conn...

... for Andrae Crouch," The National Leader (September 9, 1982), Walter Rico Burrell, "The Gospel According to Andrae Crouch," Ebony (September 1982), plus one piece about Willie Mae Ford Smith (also raised in Pentecostalism), "Documentary Finally Brings Recognition to Gospel Singer," The [Hampton, Virginia...

... in this text. Such attention may have been able to recognize the "blues" character of the church. Even with these considerations, Spencer has produced a crucial text in blues studies as well as theological and cultural studies, one that is destined to be a classic in theomusicology. Willie fames fennings Alan...

... that address the music of popular musicians Hammer, Willie Nelson, and Madonna from the perspective of the symbiotic relationship between Christian theology and popular secular music. The genres of blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, and rock are also covered in this way. The essays are by H. Lynne Westfield...

... of the Willie Horton case. Atwater's use of Willie Horton viciously played on the very prejudice against black men that has often led blues musicians to express the psychic, personal, and social pain occasioned by racism in American (political) culture. Rap's visibility may alter this pattern as it continues...

..., Willie, 135 trickster, 104-14, II8, 133-40 Trickster to Badman, 105 Tristan und Isolde, 63 Trulear, Harold Dean, 20 Tunnel of Love, 236-41 Tu.mer, Victor, 229 '!wain, Mark, 60 "'Iwelves, The," 99-100 2 Live Crew, 274-81 Ulmer, Gregory, I?7, 198 Understanding Media, 56 United Methodist Hymnal, The, 144...

... Carter (music), Memorial Hymn to General Armstrong (1893). Photocopy. Bll, f9 Banks, Robert. The Praise Chorale: A Negro Folk-Gospel Cantata. SATB and Piano. b29 Barnet, Willis L. Antiphonal Praise. SATB and Keyboard. b29 - - - . Being the Church. Gospel. SATB and Solo. Bl3 - - - . Bless the Lord, 0 My...

...., 16 Hollywood Shuffle, 38 "Holy Intellect," II Hopson, Sonny, 42 Horton, Willie, 19 "How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise," 43 Hughes, Langston, 27, 62 Hulbert, Maurice, 42 "I Go to Work," 57 "I'm the Magnificent," 56-57 Ice Cube, 7, 78 Ice-T, 4, 34; and misogyny, 70 inner-city, life in the, 13...