Slave Songs of the United States
Slave Songs of the United States was a collection of African American music published in 1867. It was the first, and most influential,[1][2] collection of spirituals to be published; the collectors were Northern abolitionists, William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison and Charles Pickard Ware.[3] It is a "milestone not just in African American music but in modern folk history".[4][5][6][7] It is also the first published collection of African-American music of any kind.[8]
References
- Chase, Gilbert (2000). America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-00454-X.
- Crawford, Richard (2001). America's Musical Life: A History. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-04810-1.
- Darden, Robert (1996). People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0826417523.
- Koskoff, Ellen (ed.) (2000). Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: The United States and Canada. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8240-4944-6.
- National Conference on Music of the Civil War Era (2004). Mark A. Snell, Bruce C. Kelley (Eds.). ed. Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0826215386.
- Southern, Eileen (1997). Music of Black Americans. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.. ISBN 0393038432.
Notes
- ^ Darden, pg. 71
- ^ Southern, pg. 152
- ^ Crawford, pg. 416
- ^ Darden, pgs. 99-100
- ^ Maultsby, Portia K.; Mellonee V. Burnin and Susan Oehler. "Overview". The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. pp. 572–591.
- ^ Ramsey, Jr., Guthrie P. (Spring, 1996). "Cosmopolitan or Provincial?: Ideology in Early Black Music Historiography, 1867-1940". Black Music Research Journal (Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1) 16 (1): 11–42. doi:10.2307/779375. JSTOR 779375.
- ^ Snell and Kelley, pg. 22
- ^ Chase, pg. 215
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