Readings in Black American music

Readings in Black American music / compiled and edited by Eileen Southern.

"In this companion volume to The Music of Black Americans, Eileen Southern draws on letters, journals, memoirs, ledgers, books, articles, and even slave advertisements in newspapers to illuminate the story told that historical survey, now in its Third Edition. The collection includes documents...

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Other Authors: Southern, Eileen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, ©1983.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
African Americans > Music.
Music > United States.
Music.
Table of Contents:
  • The African heritage. From The golden trade / Richard Jobson ; From Travels in the interior districts of Africa / Mungo Park ; From Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee / Thomas Edward Bowdich
  • Black singers and instrumentalists of early America. From Letters from the Rev. Samuel Davies and others / Samuel Davies and others ; Slave advertisements / eighteenth-century newspapers ; From Reminiscences of Newport / George Champlain Mason
  • Slave holidays and festivals. Pinkster festivities in Albany / James Eights ; From Hartford in the olden time / Isaac W. Stuart ; From Journal of Latrobe / Benjamin Henry B. Latrobe
  • Religious music in the nineteenth century. From A collection of hymns and spiritual songs / Richard Allen ; From Methodist error / John F. Watson ; From Recollections of seventy years / Daniel Alexander Payne
  • Music on the plantation. From The old plantation / James Hungerford ; From My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; From Six years in a Georgia prison / Lewis W. Paine ; From Twelve years a slave / Solomon Northup ; From Homes of the New World / Fredrika Bremer ; From the slave narrative collection
  • Music in the cities in the nineteenth century. From The hermit in America / Robert Waln (Peter Atall) ; If sleeping now fair maid of love and Voice quadrilles / Francis Johnson ; From Richmond in by-gone days / Samuel Mordecai ; From New York by gas light / George G. Foster ; From Music and some highly musical people / James M. Trotter
  • General characteristics of slave music. From Slave songs of the United States / William Francis Allen ; From Army life in a black regiment / Thomas W. Higginson ; From The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois
  • The music of a free people. The heart of the blues from Father of the blues / William Christopher Handy ; Clorindy, the origin of the cakewalk / Will Marion Cook ; That's how the cake walk's done / J. Leubrie Hill ; A Negro explains "Jazz" / James Reese Europe ; From His eye is on the sparrow / Ethel Waters ; From To be or not to bop / John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ; The jazz avant-garde / Imamu Amiri Baraka ; Notes on the Negro spiritual / Hall Johnson ; Changing patterns in Negro folk songs / John W. Work ; From Movin' on up / Mahalia Jackson ; From Songs of Zion / J. Jefferson Cleveland and William B. McClain ; The structure of music / William Grant Still ; From Black composers and the avant-garde / Thomas Jefferson Anderson ; Here I stand / Hale Smith ; The Black American composer / Olly Wilson.

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