Feel the Spirit : studies in nineteenth-century Afro-American music / edited by George R. Keck and Sherrill V. Martin.

Other author Keck, George Russell, editor.
Other author Martin, Sherrill V., editor.
Other author National Endowment for the Humanities.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Greenwood Press, 1988.
Descriptionxiii, 186 pages : music ; 24 cm.
Subjects
African Americans--Music. --19th century. --History and criticism. --Congresses.
Music--United States. --History and criticism. --Congresses.
African American musicians--Congresses.

SeriesContributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 119
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 119. ^A477074
Contents Music of Black Americans during the war years, 1861-1865 / Sherrill V. Martin -- Choirs of angels armed for war: Reverend Marshall W. Taylor's A Collection of revival hymns and plantation melodies / Robin Hough -- Black female concert singers of the nineteenth century: Nellie Brown Mitchell and Marie Selika Williams / Carolyne Lamar Jordan -- The nineteenth-century spiritual text: a source for modern gospel / Oral L. Moses -- P.G. Lowery and his musical enterprises: the formative years / Clifford Edward Watkins -- Sam Lucas, 1840-1916: a bibliographic study / Ellistine Perkins Holly -- The singing tours of the Fisk Jubilee Singers: 1871-1874 / Louis D. Silveri -- Black male concert singers of the nineteenth century: a bibliographic study / Ronald Henry High -- Keyboard music by nineteenth-century Afro-American composers / Ann Sears -- Promoting Black music in nineteenth-century America: some aspects of concert management in New York and Boston / George R. Keck -- Nineteenth-century Afro-American music: a bibliographical guide to sources for research / George R. Keck and Sherrill V. Martin.
Abstract The discovery of Black music by Northern whites during the Civil War opened the way for many Black musicians and singers to pursue successful careers as composers and concert and stage artists. This collection of essays and bibliographical materials is an important contribution to our knowledge of their achievements and experiences in the post-Civil War period. Reflecting the combined efforts of leading specialists in the field, it documents and describes the careers of individual artists and performing groups and provides a vivid picture of what it was like to be Black and a musician in late nineteenth-century America. The introduction provides a background for the post-Civil War Developments and shows how the papers included in the anthology are related to the overall topic and to each other. The collection begins with a discussion of the music of Black Americans during the war years, both in military bands and individual performance. Several essays present biographical and bibliographical information on well-known concert performers and other musicians of the postwar period, including Nellie Brown Mitchell, Marie Selika Williams, P. G. Lowery, Sam Lucas, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Musical genres such as revival hymns and plantation melodies are considered together with the nineteenth-century musical and literary sources of modern Gospel. An essay on musical promotion offers some insights on concert management as it affected Black performers in New York and Boston. Another essay on keyboard music includes a bibliography of existing compositions by Black composers.
General noteAn outgrowth of two seminars sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities at Harvard University in the summers 1982 and 1986.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages 173-178) and index.
LCCN 88015485
ISBN0313262349 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780313262340 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML3556 .F43 1988 ✔ Available Place Hold