Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Songs of Zion
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Songs of Zion
Author: Michael BushellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781884527043
Category : Psalmody
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Temple Anthems for General Use by All Church Choirs
Author: Evan StephensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Sweet Songs of Zion
Author: John BetjemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
'Hymns are the poems of the people.' John Betjeman
Gullah Spirituals
Author: Eric Sean CrawfordPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643361910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. This work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina's St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s. Grounded in an oral tradition with a dynamic and evolving character, spirituals proved equally adaptable for use during social and political unrest and in unlikely circumstances. Most notably, the island's songs were used at the turn of the century to help rally support for the United States' involvement in World War I and to calm racial tensions between black and white soldiers. In the 1960s, civil rights activists adopted spirituals as freedom songs, though many were unaware of their connection to the island. Gullah Spirituals uses fieldwork, personal recordings, and oral interviews to build upon earlier studies and includes an appendix with more than fifty transcriptions of St. Helena spirituals, many no longer performed and more than half derived from Crawford's own transcriptions. Through this work, Crawford hopes to restore the cultural memory lost to time while tracing the long arc and historical significance of the St. Helena spirituals.
The Songs of Zion
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Catalogue of the Barton Collection
Author: Boston Public Library. Barton CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook
Author: Dale CockrellPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 9780895796875
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
URL: https://www.areditions.com/rr/rra/a071.html The eight Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867¿1957), anchored in her family¿s history and filled with memories of frontier life, are cornerstone classics in American children¿s literature. Embedded in them are citations to 127 pieces of music--from parlor songs, stage songs, minstrel show songs, patriotic songs, Scottish and Irish songs, hymns and spirituals, to fiddle tunes, singing school songs, play party songs, folk songs, broadside ballads, catches and rounds. No books in American literature of comparable standing and popularity feature America¿s vernacular music so centrally, assign it such a major narrative role, and index it in such rich abundance. This edition is a reconstruction of "the family songbook," based on the music referenced in Wilder¿s books. Although no such object ever existed, her representations of music-making have likely informed the imaginations of more Americans than many a paper-and-bindings anthology, for what millions of readers have come to know about America¿s musical heritage is what they learned from the Little House books¿the titles and lyrics to songs; how songs and tunes functioned; where they were heard; what they meant; the importance of music to individuals, families, and communities. Wilder¿s references and her evocative images of music-making thus form the basis of understanding about "American music" to many readers. The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook is an effort to give fresh voice and sound to the music inscribed in these great books and new appreciation about how music functioned during a place and time important in American history and mythology.