The Book of American Negro Spirituals |
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James Weldon Johnson, J.Rosamond Johnson
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Pages: 384 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0306812029
Pub: Da Capo Press Inc
Pub date: 2002-11-27
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 371690
Reader Reviews:
Insights (1/1 people found this helpful)
A fantastic insight to the world of the Negro Spiritual. All the old fave's, with some less well known songs thrown in!
an excellent preface dissecting the musicality and wording behind the Negro Spiritual!
LOVELY BOOK!! GET DOWN MOSES!!!;-)
Outstanding transcriptions of traditional music (1/1 people found this helpful)
This book stays true to aural tradition and offers outstanding, non-Westernized arrangements of the aural traditional music of African American spirituals.
The choice of using phonetic spellings for the lyrics means that the lyrics are heavy in the use of words like "dese", "dose", "Heab'n", etc. However, given the original publication being in the 1920's, and the author's comments in the introduction, it is apparent that the spellings are not the result of gross cultural insensitivity.
The respect for, and love of this fine music comes through in the author's comments. And the transcriptions retain the strong harmonic features that are often "arranged out" of collections of aural traditional music.
It is a fine collection, and an absolute steal at the price.
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