Under the rubric spirituals are subsumed sorrow songs, jubilee
songs, shout songs, chants, homilies, mantras, affirmations, and
collective, personal, and historical allegories. Their lyrics tell
an impassioned story of an embattled people, while presenting a
theology of salvation; in general, they encompass crucial aspects
of the Afro-American world view. This research collection contains
lyrics of 978 spirituals, including some variants, culled from
numerous anthologies and collections. Codes are provided to guide
the researcher to an original source with musical notations. The
songs are organized in nine thematic categories as follows: lyrics
of sorrow, alienation, and desolation; consolation and faith;
resistance and defiance; deliverance; jubilation and triumph;
judgment and reckoning; regeneration; spiritual progress; and
transcendence. Each thematic section is prefaced by an interpretive
statement, and the volume introduction discusses the historical
background and analyzes the basic poetics of the spirituals with
regard to structure, prosody, and figures of speech. Selective
bibliographies of song collections and historical and theoretical
works are included as well. The lyrics are indexed by title and by
first line, and a general index provides access to topics, themes,
persons, and places. The spirituals are pervasive in Afro-American
life, and this collection will be a basic resource for researchers
in all aspects of Afro-American culture, religion, and history, and
useful, as well, for musicologists.
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