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Author: Edward Boatner Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications ISBN: 9780769253336 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 148
Book Description
The Story of the Spirituals are Bible stories set to music. Edward Boatner chose 30 stories for which he gives music and his research of their origins. It is a tribute to Mr. Boatner's presentation of this music that the book has been one of Belwin's best-selling books for more than 20 years.
Author: Edward Boatner Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications ISBN: 9780769253336 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 148
Book Description
The Story of the Spirituals are Bible stories set to music. Edward Boatner chose 30 stories for which he gives music and his research of their origins. It is a tribute to Mr. Boatner's presentation of this music that the book has been one of Belwin's best-selling books for more than 20 years.
Author: John Lovell Publisher: ISBN: Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 712
Book Description
"Black Song" is a literary tribute to the power and beauty of the timeless musical tradition of Afro-American spirituals. The author charts the evolution and development of the Black spiritual, and presents hundreds of examples of the more than 6,000 remaining songs. This is the definitive history of a simple musical form in all its complexities -- music, religion, philosophy, poetry, and politics. The book's first part, "The Forge," presents the authentic "story of how the songs were hammered out." In the second part, "The Slave Sings Free," the author examines the creators and their communities, and interprets the meanings and implications of the songs that have passed into, and have become part of, our society. The development of the spiritual as a world phenomenon is traced in the final part, "The Flame." "Black Song" will remain in the literature of our musical, cultural, and social heritage as a fascinating reader and essential reference book. -- From publisher's description.
Author: Michael L. Cooper Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780395978290 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 86
Book Description
Presents the story of the Jubilee Singers, a group of African Americans who toured singing slave spirituals to raise money for their struggling school.
Author: William Francis Allen Publisher: Applewood Books ISBN: 1557094349 Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 170
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Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell, as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow, and a dull, daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand, the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after, to which their eyes seem constantly turned.
Author: Cone, James H. Publisher: Orbis Books ISBN: 1608339432 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 167
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"How two forms of song helped sustain slaves and their children in the midst of tribulation. With a new introduction by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes"--
Author: Harry T. Burleigh Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing ISBN: 9780739045282 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Harry Burleigh's music falls into three categories: secular, religious, and sacred. This 200-page collection is a treasure of history made usable in his fine arrangements. "Deep River" was published in 1917, the first of many to make Burleigh well-known as a composer. This title is available in SmartMusic.
Author: Luke A. Powery Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp ISBN: 1611649137 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 158
Book Description
Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals provide profound insights into the human condition and Christian life. Many spirituals focus on the climax of the Christian drama, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the ways in which those events bring about the liberation of Gods people. In these devotions for the season of Lent, Luke A. Powery leads the reader through the spirituals as they confront the mystery of Christs atoning death and victory over the grave. Each selection includes the lyrics of the spiritual, a reflection by the author on the spirituals meaning, a Scripture verse related to that meaning, and a brief prayer.
Author: Aaron Henderson Publisher: ISBN: 9781734452105 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Fight On brings together three dynamic elements to tell the story of the African American Spirituals tradition: fifty-nine paintings from a series by Aaron F. Henderson, the lyrics of fifty-six spiritual songs, and narrative writings by scholars of art and culture, and Henderson himself. The elements come together to make this more than an art book, a lyric book, autobiography or cultural commentary. Fight On is a celebratory document of African American culture, giving evidence to how Black people in a nation that grew rich and powerful on the strength of their unpaid labor survived and liberated themselves.Two things have been a consistent in the life of Aaron F. Henderson: making art and listening to spirituals-at home, in church, and later in college. He has also always valued history, the scholarly work required to write it, and recognizes its power expressed in different ways, including music. Fight On reveals how music has served as medicine, spiritual sustenance and a means of communication for Black people in general, and himself in particular. He studies great African American thinkers, such as W. E. B. Du Bois who in The Souls of Black Folk called spirituals sorrow songs that "articulate messages of the slave to the world," messages of suffering, despair, freedom, faith, hope, and the power of the spirit. Henderson references Frederick Douglass who wrote about the double meanings in their words and how every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. The paintings in Fight On show us the spirit of Harriet Tubman who used the spirituals as a signal of her arrival to facilitate the escape of others by way of the Underground Railroad. The songs kept people working in the fields, on the railroads and marching during the civil rights movement. The songs are the foundation of Black music, i.e., blues, jazz, R&B, gospel, Rock & Roll, rap, and hip hop. Du Bois said it this way "by fateful chance the Negro folksong---the rhythmic cry of the slave---stands today not simply as the sole American music.
Author: Ashley Bryan Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0689316623 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
Ashley Bryan says, "I have subtitled this collection A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals. It could really be called Spirituals for the Young and ALL! And so it could be, for the songs it presents can be enjoyed by people of every age and every level of musical skill. Mr. Bryan goes on to say, "Wherever I travel, people sing these songs. Often they do not know that they are singing spirituals. They associate them with their churches, schools, camps, or clubs and are surprised when told that they are singing spirituals. "Almost a thousand of these songs have been collected since the end of the Civil War. They are unique in the song literature of the world and are considered America's most distinctive contribution to world music." Of the thousand African-American spirituals that are known, Mr. Bryan has here chosen twenty, among them some of the best known and best loved, including the title song, "All Night, All Day," and such others as "This Little Light of Mine,""When the Saints Go Marching In," and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." For each, David Manning Thomas has created an interesting piano accompaniment in support of the melody and has indicated guitar chords. Best of all, full-color pictures capture the spirit and essence of many of the songs to make this a book that can both be used as a fine songbook and treasured for its beauty; for the warmth, liveliness, and inspirational depth of its illustrations.
Author: Edward Boatner
Author: Edward Boatner
Author: John Lovell
Author: Michael L. Cooper
Author: William Francis Allen
Author: Cone, James H.
Author: Harry T. Burleigh
Author: George Pullen Jackson
Author: Luke A. Powery
Author: Aaron Henderson
Author: Ashley Bryan