Lyrics of the Afro-American spiritual : a documentary collection

著者

• Peters, Erskine

書誌事項

Lyrics of the Afro-American spiritual : a documentary collection

edited with introductory materials by Erskine Peters

（The Greenwood encyclopedia of Black music）

Greenwood Press, 1993

注記

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Under the rubric spirituals are subsumed sorrow songs, jubilee songs, shout songs, chants, homilies, mantras, affirmations, and collective, personal, and historical allegories. Their lyrics tell an impassioned story of an embattled people, while presenting a theology of salvation; in general, they encompass crucial aspects of the Afro-American world view. This research collection contains lyrics of 978 spirituals, including some variants, culled from numerous anthologies and collections. Codes are provided to guide the researcher to an original source with musical notations. The songs are organized in nine thematic categories as follows: lyrics of sorrow, alienation, and desolation; consolation and faith; resistance and defiance; deliverance; jubilation and triumph; judgment and reckoning; regeneration; spiritual progress; and transcendence. Each thematic section is prefaced by an interpretive statement, and the volume introduction discusses the historical background and analyzes the basic poetics of the spirituals with regard to structure, prosody, and figures of speech. Selective bibliographies of song collections and historical and theoretical works are included as well. The lyrics are indexed by title and by first line, and a general index provides access to topics, themes, persons, and places. The spirituals are pervasive in Afro-American life, and this collection will be a basic resource for researchers in all aspects of Afro-American culture, religion, and history, and useful, as well, for musicologists.

目次

Codes to the Sources of the Lyrics Introduction and Historical Background Lyrics of Sorrow, Alienation, and Desolation Lyrics of Consolation and Faith Lyrics of Resistance and Defiance Lyrics of Deliverance Lyrics of Jubilation and Triumph Lyrics of Judgment and Reckoning Lyrics of Regeneration Lyrics of Spiritual Progress Lyrics of Transcendence Select Bibliographies Alphabetical Index to First Lines Alphabetical Index to Titles General Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA20613742
• ISBN:
  • 0313262381
• LCCN: 92027574
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Westport, Conn.
• ページ数/冊数: xxxi, 463 p.
• 大きさ: 29 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : ML54.6
  • DC20 : 782.25
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Spirituals (Songs) -- Texts
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00197237