Title Way over in Beulah lan' : understanding and performing the Negro spiritual / André J. Thomas ; with a foreword by Anton E. Armstrong.

Publication Info.	Dayton, OH : Heritage Music Press, [2007]
	©2007

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott Reference	ML3556 .T361 2007	Available	---
Talbott: Circulating Collection	ML3556 .T361 2007	Available	---

Description	xvi, 272 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 26 cm
Note	Chiefly discusses choral arrangers and choral arrangements of spirituals.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and discography/videography (pages 268-270).
Contents	pt. I. Understanding the spiritual. Singing in a strange land : the origin and development of the spiritual ; From the oral tradition to the printed page : selected collectors of the spiritual ; Beyond the printed page to shaping an art : selected arrangers of the spiritual -- pt. II. Performing the spiritual. From the printed page to the concert stage : interpreting the spiritual ; Reflections on six spirituals ; Other perspectives : interviews with Anton Armstrong and Judith Willoughby -- Index of concert spirituals by arranger -- Index of concert spirituals by title.
Subject	Spirituals (Songs) -- Bibliography.
	Spirituals (Songs)
Genre/Form	Bibliographies.
	Choral music.
Subject	African Americans -- Music -- History.
	African Americans -- Music.
	History.
	Performance practice (Music)
	Performance practice (Music)
	Arrangers (Musicians) -- Biography.
	Arrangers (Musicians)
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Biographies.
	Bibliographies.
ISBN	9780893287238
	0893287237