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: James H. Cone Publisher: Orbis Books ISBN: 1608330419 Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 172
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Interpretations of the black spirituals. The debate about black music ; The souls of black folk ; Social and historical perspectives ; Religion in the spirituals -- The black spirituals and black experience -- God and Jesus Christ in the black spirituals. The meaning of God : God as liberator ; The meaning of God : Jesus Christ -- God and black suffering. Faith and suffering in the Bible ; Black faith and suffering ; The meaning of death ; The meaning of Satan ; The meaning of sin -- The meaning of heaven in the black spirituals. Heaven and black existence ; The transcendent present ; The transcendent future ; Judgment and the righteousness of God -- The blues : a secular spiritual. The rise of the blues ; Toward a definition of the blues ; The blues and black suffering ; The blues and sex ; The blues and social protest ; The blues and hope.
Author: A. Yemisi Jimoh Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781572331723 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 300
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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
Author: Adam Gussow Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469633671 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 417
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The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.
Author: Bill Wolaver Publisher: ISBN: 9780834199392 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 47
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"Gospel Rhythm & Blues" contains 10 moderately advanced piano solos based on hymns, gospel songs and spirituals featuring the influence of jazz, gospel and rhythm & blues.
Author: Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska Publisher: New Americanists in Poland ISBN: 9783631681312 Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation. It also focuses on how literary themes in spirituals and blues depict the destruction of the world, death, Christian judgement, heaven and catastrophic events in personal lives of African Americans that result in loss. Selected blues lyrics and texts of spirituals show the persistence of these themes. The book was written with a broad potential audience in mind especially among those interested in religion, eschatology, spirituals, blues and African American studies.
Author: Kevin Young Publisher: Everyman's Library ISBN: 0375414584 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 258
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Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted exclusively to blues poems–a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power. The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden, to “Blues on Yellow” by Marilyn Chin and “Reservation Blues” by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues-inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics–poems in their own right–from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.
Author: Hans Rookmaaker Publisher: P & R Publishing ISBN: 9781629956732 Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages :
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"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"--
Author: Michael Bane Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated ISBN: Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
White Boy Singin' the Blues is both a musical history of Memphis, the city which gave birth to rock'n'roll, and an examination of the ways in which white and black musics have interacted. In this work, Michael Bane examines the whole history of the music, from the black roots of spirituals and blues, through the beginnings of rock'n'roll, and its evolution through the Twist, the British Invasion, Motown, funk, Southern boogie, and disco. The result is an idiosyncratic history of rock, and a culturally penetrating account of this hybrid music.
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