The Spirituals and the Blues

The Spirituals and the Blues PDF Author: James H. Cone
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 0883448432
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
Cone explores two classic aspects of African-American culture--the spirituals and the blues. He tells the captivating story of how slaves and the children of slaves used this music to affirm their essential humanity in the face of oppression. The blues are shown to be a "this-worldly" expression of cultural and political rebellion. The spirituals tell about the "attempt to carve out a significant existence in a very trying situation".

The Gospel According to the Blues

The Gospel According to the Blues PDF Author: Gary W. Burnett
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1620327252
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
The Gospel According to the Blues dares us to read Jesus's Sermon on the Mount in conversation with Robert Johnson, Son House, and Muddy Waters. It suggests that thinking about the blues--the history, the artists, the songs--provides good stimulation for thinking about the Christian gospel. Both are about a world gone wrong, about injustice, about the human condition, and both are about hope for a better world. In this book, Gary Burnett probes both the gospel and the history of the blues as we find it in the Sermon on the Mount, to help us understand better the nature of the good news which Jesus preached, and its relevance and challenge to us. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

The Spirituals and the Blues - 50th Anniversary Edition

The Spirituals and the Blues - 50th Anniversary Edition PDF Author: Cone James
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626984813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
"How two forms of song helped sustain slaves and their children in the midst of tribulation. With a new introduction by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes"--

Getting the Blues

Getting the Blues PDF Author: Stephen J. Nichols
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1587432129
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
A vivid investigation of how blues music teaches listeners about sin, suffering, marginalization, lamentation, and worship.

Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction

Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction PDF Author: A. Yemisi Jimoh
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572331723
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Jimoh (English, U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville) investigates African American intracultural issues that inform a more broadly intertextual use of music in creating characters and themes in fiction by US black writers. Conventional close readings of texts, she argues, often miss historical-sociopolitical discourses that can illuminate African American narratives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Spirituals and the Blues

The Spirituals and the Blues PDF Author: Cone, James H.
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608339432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
"How two forms of song helped sustain slaves and their children in the midst of tribulation. With a new introduction by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes"--

Jazz, Blues, and Spirituals

Jazz, Blues, and Spirituals PDF Author: Hans Rookmaaker
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN: 9781629956732
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
"Rookmaaker's music history explores the development of black music in the United States until the 1950s-describing the spiritual and cultural origins, rationale, and interplay of its diverse new genres"--

Book of Blues

Book of Blues PDF Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101548800
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment. "In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac
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