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On my journey now : looking at African-American history through the spirituals / Nikki Giovanni ; foreword by Arthur C. Jones, Founder and Artistic Program Director of the Spirituals Project. Complete lyrics for the Spirituals included.
LIBRA - Rare PS3557.I55 O6 2007 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giovanni, Nikki.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spirituals (Songs)--History and criticism--Juvenile literature.
- Spirituals (Songs).
- African Americans--History--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- History.
- African Americans--History.
- Genre:
- Children's nonfiction.
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Giovanni, Nikki (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 116 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- With the passion of a poet and the knowledge of a historian, Giovanni tells the story of Africans in America through the glorious words of 46 spirituals, which celebrate a people who overcame enslavement and found a way to survive, to worship, and to build. Includes the full lyrics to the songs.
- Contents:
- Foreword: "Change is Going to Come"
- The journey
- Slavery
- The moan
- We will continue
- A slave's day
- Escape
- In the storm so long
- Sunday
- If you want religion
- Talking about heaven
- Climbing
- Hope
- Jubilee
- The fire next time
- Anger
- After the Civil War
- The Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Spirituals today and tomorrow
- The songs
- complete lyrics.
- Notes:
- "First edition 2007."
- "The book was typeset in Tiepolo and Baskerville."
- Includes discography (pages 111), bibliographical references (pages 109-110) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has autograph of Nikki Giovanni.
- Banks Colletion copy is "Reinforced Trade Edition".
- ISBN:
- 0763628859
- 9780763628857 :
- OCLC:
- 71842859
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