Negro Spiritual Songs

  negro spiritual songs: Best-loved Negro Spirituals Nicole Beaulieu Herder, Ronald Herder, 2001-01-01 Beloved spirituals include such lasting favorites as All God's Children Got Shoes, Balm in Gilead, Deep River, Down by the Riverside, Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, Gimme That Ol'-Time Religion, He's Got the Whole World in His Hand, Roll, Jordan, Roll, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Steal Away to Jesus, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, This Train, Wade in the Water, We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder, Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? and many more. Excellent for sing-alongs, community programs, church functions, and other events.
  negro spiritual songs: American Negro Songs John Wesley Work, 1998-01-01 Authoritative study traces the African influences and lyric significance of such songs as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and John Henry, and gives words and music for 230 songs. Bibliography. Index of Song Titles.
  negro spiritual songs: American Negro Songs John W. Work, 2013-04-09 Authoritative study traces the African influences and lyric significance of such songs as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and John Henry, and gives words and music for 230 songs. Bibliography. Index of Song Titles.
  negro spiritual songs: An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice Kathleen A. Abromeit, 1999-01-30 Spirituals were an intrinsic part of the African-American plantation life and were sung at all important occasions and events. This volume is the first index of African-American spirituals to be published in more than half a century and will be an important research tool for scholars and students of African-American history and music. The first collection of slave songs appeared in 1843, without musical notation, in a series of three articles by a Methodist Church missionary identified simply as c. Collections that included musical notation began appearing in the 1850s. The earliest book-length collection of spirituals containing both lyrics and music was published in 1867 and entitled Slave Songs of the United States. Not since the 1930s, with the publication of the Index to Negro Spirituals by the Cleveland Public Library, has an index of spirituals been compiled. The spirituals are neatly organized in four indexes: a title index, first line index, alternate title index and a topical index that includes twenty major categories. A bibliography of indexed sources serves as a guide for further research.
  negro spiritual songs: Negro Slave Songs In The United States Miles Mark Fisher, 2013-01-04 This early work by Miles Mark Fisher is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the importance and meaning of slave songs in America. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all with an interest in slave music and the political history of the United States. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
  negro spiritual songs: Album of Negro spirituals , 2007 One dozen spirituals arranged for solo voice with accompaniment. Preserved in Burleigh's arrangements are the essential characteristics of these songs that generally derived from spontaneous outbursts of intense religious fervor. Includes: Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray * Were You There * Deep River and others.
  negro spiritual songs: Negro Spiritual Meredith, 2020-04-06 Negro Spiritual is a song of spoken word heard reflecting the soul of music inside the African pride and kinship stretching from slave ship to the bop of hip hop and rhythm and blues reflecting queues whipped, chained and ordained in the darkest hues of history and the black experience. It’s a poetic journey into profiles of courage chronicling oppression, suppression and misdirection of bravery against the mental slavery brought and taught in books by hook and crooks that lied and tried to hide a people who cried inside cages throughout the pages described by cultural homicide and black genocide on the ride of the Underground Railroad of pride and perseverance adherence to the drum beat stimulating the feat the black kinship. Negro Spiritual is about the blood, sweat and tears of years spent in slavery’s winter’s wrath minus the math of a summer breeze on the backs of pleas and amalgamated songs of jazz and gospel fuse of good news and old time religion meant to dent the roof of possibility educating Afrocentric youth on the proof and poetic justice of beans and greens and cornbread fed straight to the head, heart and soul mixed in a bowl of lessons fraught, taught and bought and paid by the blood, sweat and tears of years spent entangled in the roots of racism. Negro Spiritual is the music, moments and magic of the ancestors giving rhythm and rhyme traveling through exaggerated time and extension and parallel dimension of imagination reflecting ourselves back to ourselves in rich authenticity and Afrocentricity that reflects the old time religion of a people building miracles out of thin air way beyond the snare of adversarial relationships with the truth. We can do all things through the strengths of our ancestors. We are heirs to their strengths way down the lengths of time, rhyme and sublime crimes of old time religions told traveling through aggravated dimensions of perseverance preoccupied with a stride fortified with fortitude rude to the limitations of the superficial.
  negro spiritual songs: Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit Gwendolin Sims Warren, 1997 Gathers Negro spirituals, traditional gospel songs, European American hymns, and contemporary gospel songs.
  negro spiritual songs: Black Song John Lovell, 1972 Black Song is a literary tribute to the power and beauty of the timeless musical tradition of Afro-American spirituals. The author charts the evolution and development of the Black spiritual, and presents hundreds of examples of the more than 6,000 remaining songs. This is the definitive history of a simple musical form in all its complexities -- music, religion, philosophy, poetry, and politics. The book's first part, The Forge, presents the authentic story of how the songs were hammered out. In the second part, The Slave Sings Free, the author examines the creators and their communities, and interprets the meanings and implications of the songs that have passed into, and have become part of, our society. The development of the spiritual as a world phenomenon is traced in the final part, The Flame. Black Song will remain in the literature of our musical, cultural, and social heritage as a fascinating reader and essential reference book. -- From publisher's description.
  negro spiritual songs: Lift Every Voice and Sing II Accompaniment Edition Church Publishing Incorporated, 1993-01-21 This popular collection of 280 musical pieces from both the African American and Gospel traditions has been compiled under the supervision of the Office of Black Ministries of the Episcopal Church. It includes service music and several psalm settings in addition to the Negro spirituals, Gospel songs, and hymns.
  negro spiritual songs: Were You There? Harry Thacker Burleigh, 1924
  negro spiritual songs: The Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh (High Voice) Harry T. Burleigh, 1999-11-29 Harry Burleigh's music falls into three categories: secular, religious, and sacred. This collection is a treasure of history made usable in his fine arrangements. Deep River was published in 1917, the first of many to make Burleigh well-known as a composer.
  negro spiritual songs: Negro Folk-Songs Natalie Curtis Burlin, 2018-10-16 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
  negro spiritual songs: Slave Songs of the United States , 1867
  negro spiritual songs: Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein, 1977 'The songs of a slave are word-pictures of every thing he sees, or hears, or feels.'--John Dixon Long, a Philadelphia clergyman, 1857. The cacophony of clanking chains intruded upon the euphony of human song during the Middle Passage when--at the behest of ships' officers--slaves being transported to the Americas caused the overcrowded ships to echo with the sounds of dancing feet and harmonious voices. That scene is one of the first which Dena J. Epstein skillfully re-creates in her monumental work on the development and emergence of black folk music in the United States. From the plaintive tones of woe emanating from exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and 'shouts' of freedmen, Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. Her meticulous twenty-year search of diaries, letters, travel accounts, slave narratives, reports by plantation owners and ship captains, and other documents has uncovered a wealth of information on what Frederick Douglass called the 'tones loud, long and deep ... the prayer and complaints of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish.' Epstein demonstrates that secular music--the music which evangelists denounced as 'sinful'--flourished among the exiled Africans to a much greater degree than has been recognized. 'Sinful tunes' and spirituals both were familiar to antebellum blacks. The author discusses the breakup of the closed plantation society which had isolated the slaves, and the introduction of the freedmen to the public at large via Slave Songs of the United States (1867), the first published collection of black music. The fascinating genesis of that seminal work is thoroughly covered, as is hitherto unknown information on the acculturation of African music in the New World, musical style, worksongs, religious music, and the Port Royal experiment (a wartime attempt to demonstrate that blacks could manage their own affairs). Epstein's research proves what many have long suspected: dancing and singing could--and did--coexist with forced labor and bitter suffering, providing slaves with the psychological escape that helped them to survive and to retain much of their cultural heritage.--Dust jacket.
  negro spiritual songs: People Get Ready! Bob Darden, 2004-01-01 From Africa through the spirituals, from minstrel music through jubilee, and from traditional to contemporary gospel, People Get Ready! provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of this musical genre.
  negro spiritual songs: Gullah Spirituals Eric Sean Crawford, 2021-07-16 In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. This work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina's St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s. Grounded in an oral tradition with a dynamic and evolving character, spirituals proved equally adaptable for use during social and political unrest and in unlikely circumstances. Most notably, the island's songs were used at the turn of the century to help rally support for the United States' involvement in World War I and to calm racial tensions between black and white soldiers. In the 1960s, civil rights activists adopted spirituals as freedom songs, though many were unaware of their connection to the island. Gullah Spirituals uses fieldwork, personal recordings, and oral interviews to build upon earlier studies and includes an appendix with more than fifty transcriptions of St. Helena spirituals, many no longer performed and more than half derived from Crawford's own transcriptions. Through this work, Crawford hopes to restore the cultural memory lost to time while tracing the long arc and historical significance of the St. Helena spirituals.
  negro spiritual songs: American Negro Folk-songs Newman Ivey White, 1928 While his father works in the city over the winter, a young boy thinks of some good times they've shared and looks forward to his return to their South African home in the spring.
  negro spiritual songs: Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon, 2012-06-13 Winner of the 1974 National Book Award The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II. - The New Republic “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.
  negro spiritual songs: Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit Gwendolin Sims Warren, 1999-11-15 Complete with sheet music throughout, this volume profiles 101 of the best-loved psalms, gospel hymns, and spiritual songs of the African-American Church.
  negro spiritual songs: Go Down Moses Richard Newman, 1998 A stunning, illustrated celebration of the African-American spiritual--a tradition born in slavery that gave rise to some of the most powerful poetry ever composed in America--Go Down, Moses includes the lyrics to 200 songs, along with the music to 25 of the most popular ones. 75 two-color drawings.
  negro spiritual songs: Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music Joseph Horowitz, 2021-11-23 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America stayed white—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvorák’s lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he looks back to literary figures—Emerson, Melville, and Twain—to ponder how American music can connect with a “usable past.” The result is a new paradigm that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvorák’s Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America—a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitols and boardrooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, “We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.”
  negro spiritual songs: Soul Praise Honor Books, 2004-12 Soul Praise is filled with powerful hymns and songs from the rich culture of the African-American church, accompanied by the many powerful stories and insights behind these songs and hymns. This book will help you explore the people, places, and events that have shaped the heart and soul of African-American worship music throughout the years. You will be reminded of the deep spiritual heritage reflected in such lasting favorites as: Precious Lord, Take My Hand, Thomas A. Dorsey There Is a Balm in Gilead, traditional Swing Low, Sweet Chariot traditional Stand By Me,Charles A. Tindley Deep River, H.T. Burleigh Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,James Weldon Johnson ...and many more
  negro spiritual songs: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Timothy Rice, James Porter, Chris Goertzen, 2017-09-25 Here in one volume is a comprehensive look at the folk and traditional musics of the European continen - from Ireland to the new republics of Georgia and Belarus. In over seventy articles by sixty-one contributors from around the world, this encyclopedia explores musical life from historical and ethnographic perspectives and provides extensive analysis of songs and instrumental music.
  negro spiritual songs: My Favorite Spirituals Roland Hayes, 2001-01-01 Thirty musical arrangements by noted African-American tenor recall biblical events in such well-known tunes as Deep River, Dry Bones, Steal Away, and Were You There? Perceptively written introduction to each song includes background history. Rich collection will appeal to lovers of great spirituals and the rich legacy of African-American song.
  negro spiritual songs: Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes Howard W. Odum, 1909-01-01
  negro spiritual songs: American Negro Folk-songs Newman Ivey White, 1928 While his father works in the city over the winter, a young boy thinks of some good times they've shared and looks forward to his return to their South African home in the spring.
  negro spiritual songs: The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal. , 1996
  negro spiritual songs: The New Negro Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gene Andrew Jarrett, 2021-06-08 When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the New Negro around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging stereotypes of the Old Negro, and declaring that the New Negro was capable of high achievement, black writers tried to revolutionize how whites viewed blacks--and how blacks viewed themselves. Nothing less than a strategy to re-create the public face of the race, the New Negro became a dominant figure of racial uplift between Reconstruction and World War II, as well as a central idea of the Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro collects more than one hundred canonical and lesser-known essays published between 1892 and 1938 that examine the issues of race and representation in African American culture. These readings--by writers including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alain Locke, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright--discuss the trope of the New Negro, and the milieu in which this figure existed, from almost every conceivable angle. Political essays are joined by essays on African American fiction, poetry, drama, music, painting, and sculpture. More than fascinating historical documents, these essays remain essential to the way African American identity and history are still understood today.
  negro spiritual songs: The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death Howard Thurman, 1947
  negro spiritual songs: Negro Spirituals Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1867
  negro spiritual songs: Wade in the Water Arthur C. Jones, 2005 Spirituals emerged from the crucible of slavery. They inspired enslaved African Americans to risk their lives for the chance to be free. Wade in the Water celebrates these spirituals as an art form and as unique and powerful cultural expression. For those with little knowledge of the tradition, it provides a wealth of information. For those who know and love the spirituals, it offers a fresh prespective and an invitation to deeper understanding, spiritual transformation, and social renewal. The book comes with a CD of some of the spirituals covered in the book.
  negro spiritual songs: The Golden Age of Gospel Horace Clarence Boyer, 2000 Presents the history of gospel music in the United States. This book traces the development of gospel from its earliest beginnings through the Golden Age (1945-55) and into the 1960s when gospel entered the concert hall. It introduces dozens of the genre's gifted contributors, from Thomas A Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson to the Soul Stirrers.
  negro spiritual songs: Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry Sandra Jean Graham, 2018-02-26 Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies. In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources to chart the spiritual's journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. In so doing they lay the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century. A companion website contains jubilee troupe personnel, recordings, and profiles of 85 jubilee groups. Please go to: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/graham/spirituals/
  negro spiritual songs: Old Plantation Hymns William Eleazar Barton, 1899
  negro spiritual songs: Negro Spirituals Christa Dixon, 1976 This is the first examination of the background and meaning of the best known Negro Spirituals. A consideration of their texts shows the spirituals to be songs of faith, deeply rooted in affirmations and experiences from the Bible. Examining over twenty spirituals, the author shows how the early singers shaped and reshaped their biblical texts in the light of the Afro-American backgrounds out of which the songs emerged and the slavery situation in which they flourished. Songs of genuine faith outlive their historical origins. Throughout the ages, people have responded in song to God's love in the world. American slave songs are world folk songs because they express a faith which cannot be imprisoned in any one age, place, or culture. (Back cover).
  negro spiritual songs: Easiest Tune Book of Negro Spirituals Music Sales Corporation,
  negro spiritual songs: The Negro Sings a New Heaven Mary Allen Grissom, 1930 These songs, with their original melodies, are valuable because they are here presented exactly as they were found and sung. Thus collected and preserved, they provide portraiture of the Afro-American folk song and background, and they remain a treasure source for future harmonization if that should be desired. In their simplicity and realism, they record a true emancipation of the black spirit. Originally published in 1930. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Negro - Wikipedia
In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage. The term negro means the color black in …

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The meaning of NEGRO is a person of Black African ancestry. Usage of Negro and Negress: Usage Guide.

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Black and Negro are both terms used to describe people of African descent. The term "Negro" has its origins in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, where it simply means "black." It …

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Originating in the 1550s from Spanish/Portuguese "negro," derived from Latin "nigrum" meaning black or dark, the word denotes black-skinned African people.

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Feb 10, 2025 · The answer is, “A Negro is a person of dark complexion or race, who has not accomplished anything and to whom others are not obligated for any useful service.”

Negro - Wikipedia
In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to …

NEGRO Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of NEGRO is a person of Black African ancestry. Usage of Negro and Negress: Usage Guide.

Black vs. Negro - What's the Difference? | This vs. That
Black and Negro are both terms used to describe people of African descent. The term "Negro" has its origins in the …

Negro - Etymology, Origin & Meaning - Etymonline
Originating in the 1550s from Spanish/Portuguese "negro," derived from Latin "nigrum" meaning black …

Who and What is a Negro | Teaching American History
Feb 10, 2025 · The answer is, “A Negro is a person of dark complexion or race, who has not accomplished anything …