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...Jon Michael Spencer 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. An Introduction to William Grant Still fon Michael Spencer Raised in the South amid the noncommunity...

...Jon Michael Spencer Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 William Grant Still: Eclectic Religionist fon Michael Spencer In 1961 William Grant Still, the "dean of Afro-American composers," prepared a speech to be given at South Carolina State College, a black institution in Orangeburg...

...Kenny J. Williams Williams , Kenny J. A Storyteller and a City: Sherwood Anderson’s Chicago . DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press , 1988 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 cool, bebop, hard bop, fusion, free-form. It seems closer to articulating ever...

...William C. Turner, Jr. The Musicality of Black Preaching: A Phenomenology William C. Turner, Jr. The Pervasiveness of the Idiom One who observes the Black Church from within the context of its life as a worshiping community is soon struck by the degree to which the preaching is musical...

...William C. Turner, Jr. Singing in the Holy Convocation of The United Holy Church of America William C. Turner, Jr. The law of the Old Testament (Lev 23:4-8) designates Holy Convocation as the Feast of the Lord. To Bishop Henry L. Fisher, the most prominent early leader of the United Holy Church...

...William B. McClain Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Foreword Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: to make a poet black, and bid him sing! These words written by Countee Cullen, a black poet of the Harlem Renaissance and the son of a powerful and popular Methodist preacher...

...William Cheek; Aimee Lee Cheek Cheek , William , and Aimee Lee Cheek . John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829–65 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 60 Blodc SoaedMusk not make the same...

...William Eric Perkins Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Nation ol Islam Ideology in the Rap ol Public Enemy William Eric Perkins The racialism of the Negro is no limitation or reservation with respect to American life; it is only a constructive effort to build the obstructions...

...William C. Turner, Jr. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Keep on Pushing: n.e Impressions William C. Turner, fr. I've got to keep on pushing, I can't stop now; Move up a little higher, someway, somehow. I've got my strength and it don't make sense not to keep on pushing. Look...

...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...

...William Pickens Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 The Negro's Religion and Music William Pickens The mystical effects and spiritual benefits of religion may not be so easily measurable in everyday terms, but its practical effects and ultimate bearing on human life are discernible...

...William Pickens Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Suggesting a uNational Anthem" William Pickens Members of the Congress of the United States have been interested in the prospect of adopting a "National Anthem" officially and by law. "The Star-Spangled Banner" seems rather...

...: William Grant Still. New York: Fischer, 1939. . "Symphonies in Black." Musical fournal 32 (April 1974); 28-29, 32-36. . "W G. S. Creator of Indigenous American Music." The Chesterian 20, no. 145 (May-June 1939): 134-38. . "William Grant Still, American Composer." Co-Art Turntable, Feb­ ruary 1942...

...Jon Michael Spencer 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. Preface This collection of writings by the "Dean of Afro-American Compos­ ers/' The William Grant Still...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Bibliography of Still's Published Articles "An Afro-American Composer's Viewpoint." In William Grant Still and the Fusion of Cultures in American Music, edited by Robert Bartlett Haas (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975), 112. "Are Negro Composers...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Index Afro-American Folksongs, 8, 38, 45,239 Alabama State Normal College, xi, xii Allen, Ross (Mrs 121 Allen, William Francis, 18, 239 American Ballads and Folk Songs, 68, 184, 20I American Negro Songs, 235 Anderson, Charles, 152 Anderson...

.... - - . Religion: A Secular Theory. New York: The Free Press, 1983. Guralnick, Peter. Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. Hamm, Charles. Yesterdays: Popular Song in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. Jones, LeRoi. Black Music. New York: William...

... as 1834, antislavery lyrics (which William Lloyd Garrison called "fugitive poetical effusions") were compiled into about a dozen song and hymn books. The pieces in these collections were sung primarily at religious and political antislavery conventions , fairs, picnics, and freedom rallies, by assemblies...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Index Academy of Music, 85 African Americans, singing voice of, 64-65 African retentions, 50, 60, 62, 63, 127 Afro-American Folk Songs, 23, 40, 97 Album of a Heart, xiv "All Coons Look Alike to Me," 30 Allen, William Francis, 63 American...

... Woman Blues," 130 Baez, Joan, 231 Baker, Chet, 283 Baldwin, James, 67, 165, 211 "Ball of Confusion," 287 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 41-42, 44, 51, 55, 58-61, 72-73, 83-84, 211 Barlow, William, 108 Barnes, Walter, 103-4 Barrett, Leonard, 204, 205 Barthes, Roland, 182-83, 199 Bartlett, C. Julian, 155-56...