Way Over in Beulah Lan'
Way Over in Beulah Lan'

Author: André Jerome Thomas

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780893287238

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Renowned choral conductor and educator Andr J. Thomas has crafted a book that the conductor of any choral ensemble-be it church, high school, university, or professional-will want close at hand when preparing to program any concert spiritual. Understanding the Spiritual, the first of the book's two sections, includes an exploration of the beginnings of the spiritual, its role in society and its transition into art music. Issues of interpretation-text, diction, rhythm and tempo-are addressed in the second section, Performing the Spiritual. In addition to interviews with noted conductors Dr. Anton Armstrong and Prof. Judith Willoughby as to matters of performance and selection, the centerpiece of this section is Dr. Thomas's personal reflections on several spiritual arrangements, including his rehearsal techniques (with specific examples and measure-number references to the included scores), as well as an insightful look into his decisions of interpretation.

Beulah Land
Beulah Land

Author: Krista McGruder

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592640270

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From the Dakotas to Key West, in "Beulah Land's" 13 stories, lush country settings are juxtaposed against taut urban landscapes as every character speaks out with his or her own unique voice.

Choral Music by African American Composers
Choral Music by African American Composers

Author:

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780810830370

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Lists and describes both published and unpublished choral works by some 100 Afro-American composers and arrangers, encompassing works representing all styles from four-part settings to avant-garde pieces. The bulk of the book is an annotated list of compositions in tabular form, organized alphabetically by composer's name, listing publication dates and number of pages, vocal ranges, type of accompaniment, publishers, and catalog number. Includes a listing of collections, biographical sketches, a discography, and addresses of publishers and composers. Useful for conductors and researchers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Fire in Beulah
Fire in Beulah

Author: Rilla Askew

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2001-12-31

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1101200219

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“A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families – one white, one Black – whose lives are woven together and then shattered” (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop for this riveting novel about one of the worst incidents of violence in American history. Althea Whiteside, an oil-wildcatter’s high-strung white wife, and her enigmatic Black maid, Graceful, share a complex connection during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush. Their juxtaposing stories – and those of others close to them – unfold as tensions mount to a violent climax in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, during which whites burned the city’s prosperous Black neighborhood to the ground. The massacre becomes the crucible that melds and tests each of the character in this masterful exploration of the American race story and the ties that bind us irrevocably to one another.

The Naked Voice
The Naked Voice

Author: W. Stephen Smith

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-03-15

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0195300505

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Focusing not only on the most important technical, but also on the often overlooked psychological and spiritual elements of learning to sing, The Naked Voice allows readers to develop their own full and individual identities as singers

Slave Songs of the United States
Slave Songs of the United States

Author: William Francis Allen

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1557094349

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Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell, as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow, and a dull, daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand, the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after, to which their eyes seem constantly turned.

O Beulah Land
O Beulah Land

Author: Mary Lee Settle

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1643362321

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O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet—Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom—is a land-hungry story. It follows the odyssey of Johnny Church's descendants as they leave England in search of freedom and land. One of those descendants, Jonathan Lacey, settles in the backcountry of Virginia, where he battles both Native Americans and white frontier bandits and builds the beginning of a flourishing estate named Beulah. The novel closes shortly before the commencement of the Revolutionary War, with Lacey elected to the House of Burgesses and his family line firmly established in what is to become the state of West Virginia.