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Subject: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Jul 01 - 10:34 PM A few of these link to items for sale, but most are links to lyrics and/or information. I've been to most of them at least briefly, and I hope these all transferred OK.... Please leave word here in the thread on any no-good links and I will ask a Clone to help fix them.
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: Dani Date: 02 Jul 01 - 09:01 AM Gee whiz! Thanks so much! Dani |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Aug 01 - 10:51 PM refresh |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Aug 01 - 12:17 AM Thanks to Mudcatter masako sakurai's post in another thread, my joy is complete: ~S~
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Aug 01 - 05:58 PM That last link Susan posted was to Slave Songs of the United States, the complete text of a classic resource. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Aug 01 - 06:33 AM Thanks Joe. Here's another:
Subject: RE: Origins of Yodelling in Country Music .... field hollers of the rural south. Here's some real audio from the 1940's ~S~
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: Burke Date: 27 Aug 01 - 09:24 AM Don't know that I'd call that hollering Spirituals, but there are some more interesting sound files there at Wiregrass Ways Radio
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Aug 01 - 09:43 AM Burke, hollers are often mentioned in materials about spirituals so I tossed it here since I had never heard of any online when I did the spirituals search. Thanks for the other link! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Sep 01 - 01:59 AM Recommend? Early Black Gospel Records? Thread with great links! A Gospel Historical Chart (Thanks Stewie!) |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Sep 01 - 02:06 AM Oops. Joe or Clone fix the above? Last link (Thanks Stewie! ~S~) is all no good, to delete. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 06 Sep 01 - 09:05 PM Not sure if you have this important site. T. W. Higginson, "Negro Spirituals," Atlantic Monthly, June 1867. Thirty-seven spirituals discussed. University of Virginia. http:// xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TWH/Higg.html |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Sep 01 - 09:17 PM Dicho, that is fabulous. In the links I orogianlly posted, there was a link to a proposal to put this doc online. And now here it is, available. The link you gave has not worked, but I got a link that does work to come up when I use this in a Google search: Negro Spirituals Atlantic Monthly June 1867 It would be great if we could get a working link... But I notice other good links in that same Google search, and the URLs all use this symbol: ~ ...which I bet is the trouble. Can anyone solve this?? ~Susan
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Sep 01 - 09:30 PM Wait, the other links are to parts of the same material. But the Higginson stuff has a homepage also, and when you go there you can see lyrics, and even get a few sound clips. I have written Mr. Picker about the link, and have invited him to come discuss with us. Wow Dicho! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: Stewie Date: 06 Sep 01 - 09:32 PM This is just a test - might not work either, but the URL doesn't have the squiggle symbol. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: Stewie Date: 06 Sep 01 - 09:38 PM Eureka ! - wonders will never cease. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Sep 01 - 09:56 PM Stewie, thanks, and that is a great start-- but the site Dicho found has lots more stuff to go with the article.... somebuddy puh-leeeze.... (printing madly) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 06 Sep 01 - 10:31 PM I have the URL working as a bookmark. I thought it might be case sensitive, but it isn't. The article I brought up is on a yellow background and has longer lines of type so there must be two versions. Did you try going directly to the URL that shows up on the front page? I thought I had sites with the ~ symbol but now I can't find any so I ain't sure now. |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Sep 01 - 10:35 PM Okiebokie. This is a route in to a project titled "Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "Negro Spirituals", but once you click you need to take a few more clicks. (So right-click what is below, and open in a new window.) Then from there click "Hypertexts" A whole pageful of alphabetized images and links comes up. The inventory is FABULOUS-- but look for "Thomas Wentworth Higginson"... Click that and then you can cruise the project. (Prepared for the American Hypertext Workshop at the University of Virginia 1996 by John M. Picker.) Included: Introduction, Brief Biography, Complete Text, Index of Spiritual Titles, Images, Sounds, Bibliography. ~S~
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 06 Sep 01 - 10:48 PM Gee, that gives a url that you can remember, and with all that other material as well. Thanks, Susan. Enough stuff there to occupy someone for weeks + |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Sep 01 - 10:51 PM Say, d'you guys mind if this becomes a permathread, if those posts trying to work it all out, get deleted? Dicho, I just so appreciate you finding this. I will add the index of tunes to the spirituals index I am working on, too, as the titles there are said to differ from the titles given later to the same tunes. Maybe we can spot which are which. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: masato sakurai Date: 06 Sep 01 - 11:33 PM This is a duplication of the info I posted at another thread, but it may be convenient for it to be here, too.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Atlantic Monthly article "Negro Spirituals" (1867) was incorporated later as a chapter into his book Army Life in a Black Regiment (1869; available now Penguin classics, 1997). The article itself is online at the following websites.
(1) The Atlantic Online (Stewie's link)
Aditional info. The whole book of Col. W. Mallory, Old Plantation Days (Hamilton, Ontario?: s.n., 1902?) is online on the web in one page at Documenting the American South.쳌@Lyrics of some spirituals are included. Masato
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Sep 01 - 12:00 AM It's just wonderful to have you all contributing. My poor, aching printer! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: IanC Date: 07 Sep 01 - 05:47 AM Susan I've been tracing this thread as I wanted to add a great deal of the information to the Basic Folk Library permathread. When it settles down, I'll do just that, so you may decide to have it there rather than in another PermaThread. Up to you
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Sep 01 - 08:43 AM Ian, I think it needs to be findable as a filter search on the word spiritual. I also am concerned that a lot of the links may be short-lived. However, I am indexing which spirituals are in which sources as best I can... perhaps you would like to be able to post that at some point, somewhere? I was aware you would be wanting all this-- just not sure yet in what form will work best for us both. I figured we'd hook up on it eventually though! *G* ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Sep 01 - 02:04 PM CLICK HERE A project titled "Thomas Wentworth Higginson's 'Negro Spirituals' " (Prepared for the American Hypertext Workshop at the University of Virginia 1996 by John M. Picker). Included: Introduction, Brief Biography, Complete Text, Index of Spiritual Titles, Images, Sounds, Bibliography. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Sep 01 - 02:15 PM I give up. That link worked in my personal page, but does not work here. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: masato sakurai Date: 07 Sep 01 - 03:22 PM Here's another one from Documenting the American South. There are some discussions about spirituals.
G. R. Wilson (Gold Refined)
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Sep 01 - 04:15 PM More gold from Masato's mine:
41. CLICK HERE
Included:
41b. CLICK HERE ~Susan |
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Subject: African-American Spirituals Permathread From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Sep 01 - 02:47 PM Information added here will eventually be edited into the new permathread on African-American Spirituals. Please post what you know, especially links to good past discussions, here-- until it gets brought together in the permathread. It will help if you follow the style set in the opening posts, as far as layout of new links posted, and numbering the links (picking up from the link added last before yours). Thanks! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Sep 01 - 02:56 PM So, next, would be 42. Use a. and b. just if they are links within the page your intial link goes to. Thanks! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: masato sakurai Date: 08 Sep 01 - 03:31 PM Some "candidates" for the new Permathread.
(42) Spirituals Bibliography (Oberlin Conservatory Library)
(43) The Negro Spiritual (quarterly newsletter and Negro Spiritual educational journal)
(44) The Gospel Music Archive (lyrics search included)
(45) Slave Songs (introductory essay by Laurence Dolce)
(46) Negro Spirituals (annotated links, Hartford Seminary Library)
(47) The Georgia Sea Island Singers Home Page
I'm still looking for other informative sites. Masato
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Sep 01 - 03:58 PM Go MASATO!!! SO GOOD to have you here. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Sep 01 - 11:32 PM There are LOTS of good links within the ones Masato just posted. Here's one I found traveling his trail:
48. CLICK HERE
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: masato sakurai Date: 09 Sep 01 - 02:35 AM Another goldmine from the American Folklife Center is:
49. CLICK HERE.
It "features folksongs and folktales in many languages, including blues and work songs from menhaden fishing boats, railroad gangs, and turpentine camps; children's songs, dance music, and religious music of many cultures; and interviews, also known as 'life histories.' The online presentation provides access to 376 sound recordings and 106 accompanying materials." Interestingly, there are 19 sound recordings, including a few Bahamian songs, sung by Zora Neale Hurston. And her essay Proposed Recording Expedition into the Floridas, too Masato |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 09 Sep 01 - 11:06 AM Susan, Here's a link to the Atlantic Monthly Article's Front Page Negro Spirituals 1867 I'm afraid I can't get into writing a description in your style, so, here are some other links I found. |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 09 Sep 01 - 11:12 AM George, those are wonderful. Thank you! I did know about the Project on Spirituals. I figured we'd bring them in on all this at some point. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 09 Sep 01 - 11:23 AM I saw it, and went through the site a bit and it looked pretty interesting. |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 09 Sep 01 - 12:01 PM Yes. I am not sure if we want them or they will want us, but there should be some communication with them soon. I would think that our ability to discuss, here, as well as archive speciofic items, would be very attractive to them. As soon as I get a grip on how the permathread will work, what content we want it to cover, I will contact them. And at some point I hope to get back to posting the ones that are not already out there somewhere, and do NWC files for them. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Sep 01 - 02:11 PM (I also posted this in the permathread) Need a volunteer with French to look at this:
54a. CLICK HERE Need a volunteer to open and copy the files here:
54b. CLICK HERE (If you are going to post them, please do a complete forum and DT search first, and then add each in a new thread titled with the title of the song. Help! *G* ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Sep 01 - 02:15 PM Oops! I found a download link there to nab the text files of the songs. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Sep 01 - 02:18 PM 54c. CLICK HERE to hear the Park New Choir sing a number of spirituals. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Sep 01 - 02:30 PM 55. CLICK HERE A review of a novel based on a spiritual, about a black Civil War regiment, titled Where I'm Bound. "With a gospel song in his heart, U Albany professor Allen Ballard uses a rousing adventure story to explore the Civil War from an African-American perspective....Published by Simon & Schuster, Ballard's Where I'm Bound is a swift-moving narrative about a black cavalry regiment during the Civil War. The story focuses mostly on the exploits of an escaped slave who joins the regiment, a daring man in battle who also attempts to find and reunite his scattered family during the last months of the war.... The black cavalry regiment at the heart of the novel isn't fictional: the 3rd United States Colored Cavalry really existed. In fact, the North had five black cavalry regiments; 10 percent of the Union troops were African-Americans, and by the end of the war, says Ballard, that figure had risen to 20 percent. Ballard is a professor at the University at Albany, where he teaches history and African-American studies. He's a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kenyon College, holder of a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University, and the author of two highly regarded nonfiction works on the African-American experience.... Above all, his book has songs. Songs are how the people in this novel express their deepest emotions; their songs bear the burden of their lives. "I've sometimes told kids in my classes if you want to hear African-American history, listen to the music," Ballard says. "If you want to hear what slavery was like, then you have to know the music." The author was born into a family filled with music, and one of his earliest memories is of song. "My grandmother used to iron clothes and she'd just be singing these songs, these beautiful songs, and I'm 3 years old, holding on to the legs of the ironing board, listening to my grandmother sing." His parents were "achieving folk," he says, college-educated and cultured. "My father's family had great musicians, well trained not only classically but also trained in that beautiful rhythm, that beautiful, melodic, powerful rhythm of spirituals. And to hear my aunts play the piano was like hearing a full orchestra." |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Sep 01 - 02:34 PM Help! Need a plumber! Resources, biblio, galore! Help help! Need info copied from here:
56. A href=http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/spirituals.html>CLICK HERE ~S~
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Sep 01 - 02:38 PM Need another plumber!
57. CLICK HERE ~S~
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Sep 01 - 02:48 PM Need a plumber!
58. CLICK HERE ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Sep 01 - 03:03 PM Gee I hope none of these are dulicates-- but they all will eventually get sorted out and moved over to the permathread anyhow.
59. CLICK HERE "LARGE amount of scholarship has been devoted to the music and poetry of the black spiritual but little has been written about its theology. Apparently most scholars assume that the value of the black spiritual lies in its artistic expression and not its theological content, which could be taken to mean that blacks can "sing and dance good" but cannot think. For example, almost everyone agrees with W. E. B. DuBois' contention that "the Negro is....." James H. Cone is Associate Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is known as one of the leading spokesmen for a Black Theology and is the author of Black Theology and Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology of Liberation (1970). He is also the author of the forthcoming [sic] book, The Spirituals and the Blues (1972). |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: masato sakurai Date: 21 Sep 01 - 02:57 PM Articles from The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals collection (Library of Congress/Cornell University Library). Put "haskell; (negro) spirituals," "higginson; (negro) spirituals," or "cable; (creole) slave songs" into the search box.
60a. Marion Alexander Haskell, "Negro Spirituals." The Century; a popular quarterly, vol. 58, issue 4, Aug. 1899, pp. 576-581.
60b. T.W. Higginson, "Negro Spirituals." The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 19, issue 116, June 1867, pp. 685-694. [the original page images]
60c. George W. Cable, "Creole Slave Song." The Century; a popular quarterly, vol. 31, issue 6, Apr. 1886, pp. 807-828. Masato |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: masato sakurai Date: 21 Sep 01 - 11:14 PM 61. From the announcement of Culture on the Margins: The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural Interpretation by Jon Cruz.
In Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures. Slave owners had long heard black song making as meaningless "noise." Abolitionists began to attribute social and political meaning to the music, inspired, as many were, by Frederick Douglass's invitation to hear slaves' songs as testimonies to their inner, subjective worlds. This interpretive shift--which Cruz calls "ethnosympathy"--marks the beginning of a mainstream American interest in the country's cultural margins. In tracing the emergence of a new interpretive framework for black music, Cruz shows how the concept of "cultural authenticity" is constantly redefined by critics for a variety of purposes--from easing anxieties arising from contested social relations to furthering debates about modern ethics and egalitarianism.
In focusing on the spiritual aspect of black music, abolitionists, for example, pivoted toward an idealized religious singing subject at the expense of absorbing the more socially and politically elaborate issues presented in the slave narratives and other black writings. By the end of the century, Cruz maintains, modern social science also annexed much of this cultural turn. The result was a fully modern tension-ridden interest in culture on the racial margins of American society that has long had the effect of divorcing black culture from politics.
Jon Cruz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the coeditor of Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception.
Review: "Culture on the Margins brilliantly [unravels] . . . a crucial strand in the history of how the white investment in the black came to organize not only culture and politics in the United States but also social science. . . .This theoretically exigent and beautifully written account also turns on claims about the meaning and use of spirituals for the slaves. For the emergence and disappearance of the black subject is the hinge of the story Cruz has to tell."--Michael Rogin, American Journal of Sociology
Endorsement: "A splendid and important book that clearly establishes Jon Cruz as one of the most significant cultural sociologists of his generation. The scope, depth, and originality of his theoretical analysis contributes to the general project of understanding cultural production, cultural `objects,' and cultural interpretation and appropriation. The richness of his deployment of historical materials--whether travel diaries, sermons, or early journal articles--brings his analytic framework alive. Because his book engages crucial debates in history, ethnic studies, and cultural studies as well as in sociology, it should have a wide readership among academics in many fields."--Elizabeth Long, Rice University Masato
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Sep 01 - 12:24 AM !! |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Sep 01 - 12:43 AM Masato, that Cruz material is so interesting that I copied your post to the History of Spirituals thread, so that people can see it there, too, and discuss it. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DISCUSS CRUZ' WORK AND MORE ON AND THE HISTORY OF SPIRITUALS ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Apr 05 - 02:39 PM I'm working in checking all these links, and pruning the dead ones. This will either be edited into the Spirituals Permathread or this one might becoime a sub-thread of that one. Folks, if you have some newer bookmarks to pass along, now's the time. Thanks, ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Apr 05 - 03:28 PM :~) Seen the African American Spirituals Permathread? ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Apr 05 - 07:21 PM Post copied from Spirituals Permathread as: Subject: RE: African-American Spirituals Permathread From: masato sakurai - PM Date: 02 Feb 04 - 09:49 AM William E. Barton's three articles on spirituals, which are at Making of America (Cornell University): Old Plantation Hymns The New England magazine. / Volume 25, Issue 4 (Dec. 1898) Hymns of the Slave and the Freedman The New England magazine. / Volume 25, Issue 5 (Jan. 1899) Recent Negro Melodies The New England magazine. / Volume 25, Issue 6 (Feb. 1899) |
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Subject: RE: Links on Spirituals From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Apr 05 - 10:20 AM All of the above links have been checked, and those that are definitely working have been posted in the AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPIRITUALS PERMATHREAD. A few others that were not working when I checked will be rechecked in a few days, and any that work will be entered.) If NEW LINKS are added to this thread, please take a moment to post them, also, in the AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPIRITUALS PERMATHREAD, so they can be included next time the links there are updated. Thanks! ~S~ |
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