If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me The African American Sacred Song Tradition

Name: If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me The African American Sacred Song Tradition
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ISBN: 9780803289833

ISBN-10: 0803289839

ISBN-13: 9780803289833

Edition: 2001

Authors: Bernice Johnson Reagon, Bernice Reagon

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How do you survive leaving everything you know to try to reconstruct your life and future in a new way? What do you carry with you on your journey to the new place? Migration looms large as a theme in twentieth-century African American life. Bernice Johnson Reagon uses this theme as a centering structure for four essays that examine different genres of African American sacred music as they manifested themselves throughout the twentieth century and within her own life. The first essay examines the evolution of gospel music by looking at the work of Charles Albert Tindley, Thomas Andrew Dorsey, Reverend Smallwood Williams, Roberta Martin, Pearl William Jones, and Richard Smallwood. In the…

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List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 2/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 155
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Twentieth-Century Gospel: As the People Moved They Sang a New Song


The African American Congregational Song Tradition: Deacon William Reardon Sr., Master Songleader


Spirituals: An African American Communal Voice


Freedom Songs: My African American Singing and Fighting Mothers


Notes


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