| Description |
xiv, 138 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Black sacred music : a journal of theomusicology ; v. 5, no. 2
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Black sacred music ; v. 5, no. 2.
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| Note |
"A special issue of Black sacred music : a journal of theomusicology." |
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"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 |
"Bibliography of Dett's published works": page 131. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Dominique-René de 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. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Music.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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Dett, R. Nathaniel, 1882-1943.
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Dett, R. Nathaniel, 1882-1943. |
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Dett, R. Nathaniel, 1882-1943 -- Bibliography.
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| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies.
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| Subject |
Church music -- United States.
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Church music. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Music.
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Music.
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Bibliographies.
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| Added Author |
Dett, R. Nathaniel, 1882-1943.
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Spencer, Jon Michael.
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| Added Title |
Dett reader.
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Essays on Black sacred music.
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