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Judge Jackson and the Colored sacred harp / by Joe Dan Boyd.
LIBRA Alabama T. 109 CD 1 disc
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyd, Joe Dan, 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shape-note singing--Alabama--History and criticism.
- Shape-note singing.
- African Americans--Alabama--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Jackson, J. (Judge), 1883-1958.
- Jackson, J.
- Colored sacred harp.
- African Americans--Alabama--Music.
- Hymns, English--Alabama.
- Hymns, English.
- Music.
- Alabama.
- Ethnic music recordings--Alabama.
- Ethnic music recordings, African American--Alabama.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnic music recordings--Alabama.
- Ethnic music recordings, African American--Alabama.
- Genre:
- Hymns, English.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages : illustrations ; 17 x 23 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Other Title:
- Accompanying disc has title: Colored sacred harp and the African American shape-note tradition
- Place of Publication:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Folklife Association, [2002]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Judge Jackson and the Colored sacred harp
- Early days
- "The morning trumpet"
- Broadside hymnody
- The Colored sacred harp
- Folk authorship
- Black borrowers and creators
- A wagon load of song books
- Work meets Judge Jackson
- Byrd's thesis
- Did it need a hard cover?
- Jackson's legacy
- Black sacred harpers on radio and TV
- Jackson's "stable" of composers
- Jackson's children carry on
- Dual purpose of singings
- Black sacred harpers in east Texas
- Viability of sacred harp
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-135) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0967267250
- OCLC:
- 49991405
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