Readings in Black American music / compiled and edited by Eileen Southern Associate Professor of Music, York College of the City University of New York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Southern, Eileen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music.

African Americans.

Music--United States.

Music.

United States.

Genre:

Music.

Physical Description:

xii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 302 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : music ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [1972, c1971]

Contents:

I. 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

II. Black Singers and Instrumentalists of Early America. From Letters from the Rev. Samuel Davies and Others / Samuel Davies and Others; Eighteenth-Century Newspapers: Slave Advertisements; From Reminiscences of Newport / George Champlain Mason

III. 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

IV. 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

V. Music on the Platform. 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

VI. Music in the Cities in the Nineteenth Century. From The Hermit in America / Robert Waln (Peter Atall); 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.

VII. 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

VIII. 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; A Negro Explains "Jazz" / James Reese Europe; From From Harlem to the Rhine / Arthur Little; From His Eye Is on the Sparrow / Ethel Waters; The Jazz Avant-Garde / Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones); From Movin' on Up / Mahalia Jackson; Notes on the Negro Spiritual / Hall Johnson; The Structure of Music / William Grant Still; From Black Composers and the Avant-Garde / Thomas Jefferson Anderson; Here I Stand / Hale Smith; Does a Black Mozart-or Stravinsky-Wait in the Wings? (Black Art Music) and Music Mailbag: Of Black Art Music / Carman Moore.

Notes:

"Cover Design by Jay J. Smith."

"The purpose of this collection of readings is to make available to persons interested in the history of black American music a representative number of authentic, contemporary documents illustrating that history from the seventeenth century to the present time."--Preface.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0393098923

0393021653

OCLC:

253667