White and Negro spirituals : their life span and kinship : tracing 200 years of untrammeled song making and singing among our country folk / by George Pullen Jackson ; with 116 songs as sung by both races.
| Author/creator | Jackson, George Pullen |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : J. J. Augustin Publisher, ©1943. |
| Description | xiii, 349 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Part one. The whole story of American religious folk song as the white people sang it. Old English dissent breaks out in American colonies -- Song purveyors to the Great Awakening mean well but muddle -- A free folk takes religion in hand -- Freedom in religion begets freedom in singing. Religious folk song is born -- The carnal lover is plundered of his tunes -- Camp meetings are bred in Old Kentucky. They sire the revival spiritual songs -- "Crazy" Lorenzo Dow takes camp meetings and spirituals to England -- Farmer William Miller dates the world's end -- Songs of the second coming -- Shakers, Mormons ride the millennial wave -- Revival spiritual tunes come into the open at last -- Old-time religion outmoded, social gospel comes in -- Old-time songs are pushed aside -- Part two. The whole story of American religious folk song as the Negroes sang it. The body of published Negro religious folk song is briefly surveyed -- The tune comparative list -- Aspects of white and Negro-sung tunes are examined. Some conclusions -- Folk singing and book tunes differ -- The country singing manner. The surge song secret is out -- The matter of rhythm is considered -- How the Negro treated his song texts -- Negro-borrowed tunes are traced back to Britain. Did the Black man compose religious songs? -- What of early Tin Pan Alley? Burnt corkers? Gospel hymnsters? -- Where, when, how and why did the white man's songs go over to the Negro? -- Farewell to Africa -- Six appendices. British and American books containing religious folk songs ; A list of abbreviations of book and periodical titles ; A collection of wandering rhyme pairs ; A list of favorite revival spiritual choruses ; References to British Isles sources of melodies in tune comparative list ; Index of titles, first lines and refrains of songs in the tune comparative list. |
| General note | "The tune comparative list. One hundred and sixteen melodies of white people paired with same number of Negro-sung variants": pages 145-227. |