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Feel the Spirit - Studies in Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Music (Hardcover)
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Feel the Spirit - Studies in Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Music (Hardcover)
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Here are the results of two Harvard University seminars on 19th
century African-American music, led by Eileen Southern in 1982 and
1986. This volume consists of 11 major contributions by faculty
members of smaller American colleges and universities. Much of this
information does not appear in any previously published secondary
literature. Each chapter is immediately comprehensible by anyone
interested in the subject, even without the terse perspective
offered in the introduction. . . . A major contribution to the
field. Choice The discovery of Black music by Northern whites
during the Civil War opened the way for many Black musicians and
singers to pursue successful careers as composers and concert and
stage artists. This collection of essays and bibliographical
materials is an important contribution to our knowledge of their
achievements and experiences in the post-Civil War period.
Reflecting the combined efforts of leading specialists in the
field, it documents and describes the careers of individual artists
and performing groups and provides a vivid picture of what it was
like to be Black and a musician in late nineteenth-century America.
The introduction provides a background for the post-Civil War
Developments and shows how the papers included in the anthology are
related to the overall topic and to each other. The collection
begins with a discussion of the music of Black Americans during the
war years, both in military bands and individual performance.
Several essays present biographical and bibliographical information
on well-known concert performers and other musicians of the postwar
period, including Nellie Brown Mitchell, Marie Selika Williams, P.
G. Lowery, Sam Lucas, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Musical genres
such as revival hymns and plantation melodies are considered
together with the nineteenth-century musical and literary sources
of modern Gospel. An essay on musical promotion offers some
insights on concert management as it affected Black performers in
New York and Boston. Another essay on keyboard music includes a
bibliography of existing compositions by Black composers. The
volume concludes with a bibliography of research sources and a
general index particularly useful as a reference and guide for
students with an interest in nineteenth-century Afro-American
music.
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