Black sacred music : a journal of theomusicology.
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham, NC : Duke University Press, ©1989-1995. |
| Description | volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Frequency | Semiannual |
| Contents | v. 8, no. 1 (spring 1994). Query, theory, and methodology. Is all music religious? / Philip V. Bohlman -- How can music have theological significance? / Clyde J. Steckel -- Musicology as a theologically informed discipline / Jon Michael Spencer -- Text, texture, and context in theological perspective / Angela M. S. Nelson -- Religion, rock, and research / Bernd Schwarze -- Dreamtime and tribal ritual: elements of a critical theory of popular music / Peter Bubmann -- Western classical tradition. Charles Edward Ives: theologian in music / James W. McClendon, Jr. -- William Grant Still: eclectic religionist / Jon Michael Spencer -- The quest of the absolute: Schoenberg, Hauer, and the twelve-tone idea / John Covach -- Rhythm, ritual, and religion: postmodern (musical) agonistes / Mark Summer Harvey -- Discourse within Christian theology. Overview of American popular music in a theological perspective / Jon Michael Spencer -- Theomusicology and Christian education: spirituality and the ethics of control in the rap of hammer / H. Lynne Westfield and Harold Dean Trulear -- Jesus and Madonna: North American liberation theologies and secular popular music / Mark D. Hulsether -- Doing theology with Willie Nelson / Robert M. Shelton. |
| Contents | v. 8, no. 2 (fall 1994). Articles. Dynamism in African Christian music: the search for identity and self-expression / J. Nathan Corbitt -- In search of an indigenous African hymnody: the Aladura churches among the Yoruba / Christopher Brooks -- Story, history, and performance: interpreting oral history through black performance traditions / D. Soyini Madison -- Historical reprints. Now we have the blues / James Weldon Johnson -- The negro's religion and music / William Pickens -- Suggesting a "national anthem" / William Pickens -- "The green pastures" and other ruminations / J. A. Rogers -- Sermons. A melody of freedom / Alton B. Pollard III -- Sing! for God has the last word / Harold Dean Trulear -- Singing the new song / William C. Turner, Jr. -- If I make my bed in hell / Jon Michael Spencer. |
| Contents | v. 9, no. 1-2. Foreword / Jon Michael Spencer ; Introduction / Rebecca T. Cureau ; Dedication / Willis Laurence James ; Preface / Willis Laurence James -- Prelude. Origins and modifications ; Unique situations ; Rhythm as a force ; Tone as a force ; Negro music in America ; Melody and harmony ; Dialect and its relations to creativity ; Music of Jews, Magyars, Serbs, Bulgarians -- Cries in speech and song. Primitive nature of cry ; Articulate and inarticulate cries ; Seven basic cries ; Calls developed into song cries -- Dances, blues, and ballads. Use of all song for dancing ; Imported dances ; Dances created in America ; Development of dance music ; Dance chart ; Development and nature of the blues ; Nature of ballads -- The rise of the work songs. Age of work songs ; Spirit of work songs ; Scarcity of work songs ; Texts of work songs -- Imagery and nature of the work song. Legends ; Songs from legends ; Work camps ; Mines ; Longshore and river songs ; Form and style -- Characteristics. Types of negro songs ; Texts and rhythms found in various song types ; Modes ; Manner of rendition ; Suggestions on singing -- "De stars in de elements." Where songs originate ; Singing in Alabama mining region ; Training sessions ; Historical period -- Wrong roads. Varying approaches ; Shouts ; Singing in churches ; The enlightened negro ; Singing in negro schools ; Opinions of general nature ; False presentations -- The influence of "Shape-note" singing. Disadvantages of shape-notse ; Conventions ; Shape-note singers versus non-shape-note singers ; Decline of white man's singing -- Has the negro borrowed his songs? The false assumption ; "White spirituals" ; Modes of singing ; Peculiar negro forms ; Comparisons used by George Pullen Jackson ; Summarization of negro and white influences -- The wheel in a wheel. Jazz influences ; Concert singing of paraphrases ; The negro's position -- The folk festival. The history ; Ham and Egg Show ; Secular phase ; Religious phase ; Prizes and prizewinners ; The counterbalance -- Urban-rural cycle. Negro singing in cities ; Gospel quartets ; Spiritual choirs ; Solo versions ; Dett's influence ; Most-used negro songs -- The great fantasia. An epitome of contributors of both races to the progress of negro music, whether writers, singers, composers, or other personalities -- Appendix of negro songs. |
| General note | Title from cover. |
| General note | Each issue has also a distinctive title. |
| Preceding title | Journal of black sacred music 0891-9321 |
| LCCN | 91643466 sn 89006188 |
| ISSN | 1043-9455 |
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| Music |
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ML 2999 J68 |
v. 8-9 - (1994-1995) |
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| Music | Remote Storage- Ask at Circulation Desk | ML2999 .J68 V. 8 NO. 1-2 | ✔ Available | |
| Music | Remote Storage- Ask at Circulation Desk | ML2999 .J68 V. 9 NO. 1-2 | ✔ Available |