INDEX OF "SPIRITUALS" POSTED, BY TITLE

This index includes songs created by African Americans during the slavery era in the USA, and especially the music of religious content which also may have been used as "code language" among the slaves.

The index is a work always-in-progress. You will find more suggestions on index contents in the latter portion of this thread, where people's posts about songs to include sit until I can edit them into the index.

Please join the discussions in the threads below!

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

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ABOUT THE INDEX
28 January, 2007

When I began posting spirituals here at Mudcat, from my collections, I was amazed to learn that there are so many that are not posted anywhere else online, even at sites specializing in spirituals. It was hard to find them here by searching, so I began this index, and others have stepped in to help build and maintain it.

The goal of this index is to make it easier to search for information about individual songs from the widely-defined "Negro Spirituals" tradition. This means that even when there is doubt as to the "authentic" nature of a specific song, the song will be listed in this index.

In other words, being listed here does not mean that diligent scholarship has ensured that any specific song is a "spiritual" in whatever sense any one individual might mean the term... it means, "Here is a place where we can look up titles we know or run across, and see what others have said, and add what we know-- or ask questions."

The scholarship will be in the THREADS, not in this index... the index is merely a means of facilitating our continued study.

If you spot a link that needs to be fixed— please PM me so I can fix my text file as well as ask Jeri to fix it here.

Oh behalf of lovers of Spirituals everywhere, my thanks to all who are helping. You know who you are!

~Susan Hinton
motormice@hotmail.com