Humanities through the Black experience / edited by Phyllis Rauch Klotman [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klotman, Phyllis Rauch, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American arts.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

Genre:

Music.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 185, [15] pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, [©1977].

Contents:

Chapter 1: Ceremony and Ritual. The remnant

Sermon, Rev. Smith and congregation, St. James Holiness Church, Durham, N. C.

I've decided to make Jesus my choice / Rev. Saunders and the First United Church of Jesus Christ Choir, Baltimore, Md

When Mahalia sings / Quandra Prettyman

As the spirit moves Mahalia / Ralph Ellison

Big Bethel / Samuel Allen

Tambourines to glory / Langston Hughes

A sermon from Jonah's Gourd Vine / Zora Neale Hurston

Excerpt from Coming of Age in Mississippi / Ann Moody

Harlem sketches - revival / Rudolph Fisher

Salvation / Langston Hughes

Five sketches from The Book of Negro Humor / ed. Langston Hughes

Jedgement day / Thomas D. Pawley

The funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Nikki Giovanni

Black man from Atlanta / Virginia Williams

Malcolm X / Gwendolyn Brooks

Let X be hope / James Worley

Prophets for a new day / Margaret Walker

Religious art

Slides: religious art.

Chapter 2: Art of the Folk. Believe I'll testify ; Nothing but the blood ; Gimme dat ol' time religion / Rev. Vernon Smith

Talkin' 'bout a good time ; I promised the lord, excerpts from sermon / Rev. Alexander Smith

Jesus keep me near the cross / Rev. Mobley and the New St. James Baptist Church Sunday School

Shine and the titanic

Stackalee

Stackolee

Stagolee / Julius Lester

The dirty dozen / Dan Burley

Excerpt from Big Boy Leaves Home / Richard Wright

High John de conquer / Zora Neale Hurston

Excerpt from Storytelling / Claude McKay

Ole sis goose

Folk art and crafts

Contemporary "naif" artists

Slides: contemporary "naif" artists.

Chapter 3: The Spiritual in Song and Story. O black and unknown bards / James Weldon Johnson

One mornin' soon (spiritual)

You gonna reap (spiritual)

I want to be ready (spiritual)

I couldn't hear nobody pray (spiritual)

I'm troubled in mind (spiritual)

Foller de drinkin' gou'd (spiritual)

Link o' day (spiritual)

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel (spiritual)

Keep on fighting (spiritual)

I stood on the river (spiritual)

Discography

Of our spiritual strivings / W. E. B. DuBois

Excerpt from The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man / James Weldon Johnson

Excerpt from Go Tell It on the Mountain

Strong man / Sterling Brown

Excerpt from Youngblood / JOhn Oliver Killens

Excerpt from Many Thousand Gone / Ronald Fair

Where he leads me (spiritual)

Swing low, sweet chariot (spiritual)

Steal away (spiritual)

In the sweet bye and bye (spiritual).

Chapter 4: Poetry, Prose, and the Blues. Folk musicians (illustration) / Romare Bearden

Blues for bird ; Roly poly ; Brother / David Baker

Bibliography on music

Hey! ; Hey! Hey! ; Suicide ; Stony lonesome ; Early evening quarrel / Langston Hughes

Boy on the roof (illustration)

Tin roof blues ; Ma Rainey / Sterling Brown

Excerpt from Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin

Bibliography on blues poetry.

Chapter 5: The Music and Poetry of Jazz. Jazz is my religion / Ted Joans

Louis Armstrong

Lester Young

Dizzy Gillespie

Charlie Parker

John Coltrane

Ornette Coleman

George Russell

Jazz discography

Two jazz poems / Carl Wendell Hines, Jr.

Dear John, Dear Coltrane / Michael S. Harper

Tribute to Duke / Sarah Webster Fabio

Jazztet muted / Langston Hughes

Louis Armstrong ; Charlie Parker / Frank Marshall Davis

Brother John / Michael S. Harper ; The Africa thing / Adam David Miller

Alone / Michael S. Harper

Iroquis spring (illustration) / Richard Mayhew

Untitled, 1972 (illustration) / Howardena Pindell

Double circles (illustration) / Mel Edwards.

Chapter 6: Rebellion in the Arts. The negro's tragedy / Claude McKay

On universalism / Etheridge Knight

When I am dying at ninety / Lance Jeffers

Nocturne / Naomi Long Madgett

Black cryptogram / Michael S. Harper

My blackness is the beauty of this land / Lance Jeffers

Glimpses of an image / Sarah Webster Fabio

If we must die / Claude McKay

Evil is no black thing / Sarah Webster Fabio

The birth of a nation / Askia Toure

But he was cool / Don L. Lee

Letter to an aspiring junkie / Maya Angelou

For a lady I know / Countee Cullen

The calling of names / Maya Angelou

View from the corner / Samuel Allen

The boy who painted Christ black / John Henrik Clarke

Excerpt from The System of Dante's Hell / Imamu Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

The loop garoo kid goes away mad / Ischmael Reed

Heal our history / Sarah Webster Fabio

Rebellion against tradition in the arts

Followers of the mainstream

The blackstream

Slides: rebellion against tradition in the arts

Concerto for flute and jazz band / David N. Baker

II movement - chaconne.

Notes:

"An audio cassette tape and slides wich may be used as supplementary material to accompany this text are available through the publisher."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185).

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Humanities through the Black experience.

ISBN:

0840316313

9780840316318

OCLC:

3329706