The R. Nathaniel Dett reader : essays on Black sacred music
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Physical Description:
xiv, 138 p. : ill., music, ports. ; 23 cm.
print - Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1991.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A special issue of Black sacred music : a journal of theomusicology." "The focus of this reader of the complete writings of musician and scholar Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) is African American sacred music."--Preface. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. "Bibliography of Dett's published works": p. [131] |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Dominique-Ren ďe Lerma -- Preface / Jon Michael Spencer -- Introduction / Jon Michael Spencer -- The writings of R. Nathaniel Dett. Helping to lay foundation for Negro music of the future -- The emancipation of Negro music -- Development of Negro secular music -- The development of Negro religious music -- Negro music of the present -- Review of The book of American Negro spirituals -- Review of Negro workaday songs -- John W. Work -- Religious folk-songs of the Negro -- As the Negro school sings -- Notes to the Hampton Choir at Carnegie Hall -- Notes to the Hampton Choir at Symphony Hall -- Notes to the Hampton Choir at Queen's Hall -- A musical invasion of Europe -- From bell stand to throne room -- The Dett collection of Negro spirituals -- Understanding the Negro spiritual -- The authenticity of the spiritual -- The development of the Negro spiritual -- Negro music. |
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| Subject: | Church music -- United States Afro-Americans -- Songs and music Afro-Americans -- Music Dett, R. Nathaniel -- 1882-1943 -- Bibliography Dett, R. Nathaniel -- 1882-1943 |
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