The Spirituals and the Blues

The Spirituals and the Blues

Author: Cone, James H.

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2022-11-03

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1608339432

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"How two forms of song helped sustain slaves and their children in the midst of tribulation. With a new introduction by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes"--


The Spirituals and the Blues

The Spirituals and the Blues

Author: James H. Cone

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0883448432

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Cone explores two classic aspects of African-American culture--the spirituals and the blues. He tells the captivating story of how slaves and the children of slaves used this music to affirm their essential humanity in the face of oppression. The blues are shown to be a "this-worldly" expression of cultural and political rebellion. The spirituals tell about the "attempt to carve out a significant existence in a very trying situation".


The Spirituals and the Blues

The Spirituals and the Blues

Author: James H. Cone

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1608330419

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Interpretations of the black spirituals. The debate about black music ; The souls of black folk ; Social and historical perspectives ; Religion in the spirituals -- The black spirituals and black experience -- God and Jesus Christ in the black spirituals. The meaning of God : God as liberator ; The meaning of God : Jesus Christ -- God and black suffering. Faith and suffering in the Bible ; Black faith and suffering ; The meaning of death ; The meaning of Satan ; The meaning of sin -- The meaning of heaven in the black spirituals. Heaven and black existence ; The transcendent present ; The transcendent future ; Judgment and the righteousness of God -- The blues : a secular spiritual. The rise of the blues ; Toward a definition of the blues ; The blues and black suffering ; The blues and sex ; The blues and social protest ; The blues and hope.


Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction

Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction

Author: A. Yemisi Jimoh

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781572331723

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Jimoh (English, U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville) investigates African American intracultural issues that inform a more broadly intertextual use of music in creating characters and themes in fiction by US black writers. Conventional close readings of texts, she argues, often miss historical-sociopolitical discourses that can illuminate African American narratives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Jazz, Blues, and Spirituals

Jazz, Blues, and Spirituals

Author: Hans Rookmaaker

Publisher: P & R Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781629956732

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"Rookmaaker's music history explores the development of black music in the United States until the 1950s-describing the spiritual and cultural origins, rationale, and interplay of its diverse new genres"--


Getting the Blues

Getting the Blues

Author: Stephen J. Nichols

Publisher: Brazos Press

Published: 2008-09

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1587432129

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A vivid investigation of how blues music teaches listeners about sin, suffering, marginalization, lamentation, and worship.


Beyond the Crossroads

Beyond the Crossroads

Author: Adam Gussow

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1469633671

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The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.


The Gospel According to the Blues

The Gospel According to the Blues

Author: Gary W. Burnett

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2014-10-27

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1620327252

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The Gospel According to the Blues dares us to read Jesus's Sermon on the Mount in conversation with Robert Johnson, Son House, and Muddy Waters. It suggests that thinking about the blues--the history, the artists, the songs--provides good stimulation for thinking about the Christian gospel. Both are about a world gone wrong, about injustice, about the human condition, and both are about hope for a better world. In this book, Gary Burnett probes both the gospel and the history of the blues as we find it in the Sermon on the Mount, to help us understand better the nature of the good news which Jesus preached, and its relevance and challenge to us. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }