Bibliography for Spirituals, Parts 1 and 2


Austin, William W. “Susanna,” “Jeanie,” and “The Old Folks At Home;” The Souls of Stephen Foster From His Time to Ours. Urbana [Ill.]: University of Illinois Press, 1987.”

Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

Brooks, Christopher A. “The ‘Musical’ Souls of Black Folk: Can A Double Consciousness Be
Heard,” in The Souls of Black Folk: One Hundred Years Later, by W.E.B. Du Bois, ed. with Intro by Doland Hubbard. Columbia [Missouri] and London: University of Missouri Press, 2003.

Burleigh, Harry T. Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh. Miami, Florida: Belwin Mills Publishing Corp., 1984.

Dancis, Bruce. “Analysis: The Long and Troubling History of Blackface.” The Sacramento (California) Bee, 14 March 1999.

Dixon-Gottschild, Brenda. Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts. Westport, Connecticut: Preager Publishers, 1996.

Douglass, Frederick. “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave,” in The Classic Anthology of Slave Narratives, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 323-436. New York, New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002.

Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Bantam Classic, 1989.

Harrison, J. A. “Negro English,” in Perspectives on Black English. ed Joey Lee Dillard. The Hague: Mouton, 1975.

Henderson, Clayton W. “Minstrelsy, American,” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2d ed. MacMillan Publishers Limited, 2001.

Hogan, Moses, ed. The Oxford Book of Spirituals. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Holoway, Joseph E., and Winifred K. Vass. The African Heritage of American English. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Johnson, James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson. The Books of American Negro Spirituals. New York: Da Capo Press, 1973.

Lott, Eric, contrib ed. The American Experience—Stephen Foster, PBS Web Site Special Features. http://www. pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/sfeature/sf_minstrelsy.html.

_______. “Blackface and Blackness: The Minstrel Show in American Culture,” in Inside The Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy, ed.Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara.3-32. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1996.

_______. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy And The American Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Lovell, Jr., John. Black Song: The Forge and the Flame—The Story of How The Afro-American Spiritual Was Hammered Out. New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1972.

Malcomson, Scott L. One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

Metcalf, Allan. American Regional English Today: A Talking Tour of American English. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.

Nathan, Hans. Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962.

National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. “Purpose.” http://www.namn.8m.com/page21.html.

Newman, Richard. “Spirituals, African American,” in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. 1775-78. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.

Oliver, Paul, “Spirituals §II, African-American,” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed. MacMillan Publishers Limited, 2001.

Penn Special Collections-Marian Anderson Papers, Register 3 (Scope and Content Note). http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/mms/anderson/anderson.html.

Riggs, Marlon. Ethnic Notions: Black People in White Minds. Written and Directed by Marlon Riggs. 58 min. California Newsreel, 1987. Videocassette.

Robinson, Lisa Clayton, “Slave Narratives,” in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. 1717-19. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999

Savannah Onstage International Arts Festival: American Traditions Repertoire Requirements, 2001, http://www.savannahonstage.org/ametra_repreq.html.

Saxton, Alexander. “Blackface Minstrelsy,” in Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth Century Blackface Minstrelsy, ed. Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara. 67-85. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1996.

Small, Christopher. Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in Afro-American Music. New York: Riverrun Press Inc., 1987.

Smitherman, Geneva. Black Talk: Words and Phrases From the Hood to the Amen Corner, rev ed. Boston: Houghfton Mifflin Co., 2000.

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History, 3d ed. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997.

Speed, Dennis. “African-American Spirituals and the Classical Setting of Strophic Poetry,” Fidelio Magazine Vol III, n4 (Winter 1994 [covers says Winter 1995].

Stark, Seymour. Men in Blackface: True Stories of the Minstrel Show. Xlibris Corporation, 2000.

Sweet, Frank W. A History of the Minstrel Show. Palm Coast, Florida: Backintyme, 2000.

Toll, Robert. C. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Williamson, CJ. “Discrimination’s Ugly Scab.” Classical Singer, February 2002.

Anthologies of African-American Spirituals

Arranger/Editor Anthologies

Katheen A. Abromiet An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice. Westport, Conn.: Greewood Press, 1999.

William Francis Allen Slave Songs of The United States, with Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison. Applewood Books, 1996.

Jay Althouse Spirituals for Solo Singers: Eleven Spirituals Arranged for Solo Voice and Piano for Recitals, Concerts, and Contests. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred, 1994. [Medium High and Medium Low

Edward Boatner The Story of the Spirituals: Thirty Spirituals and Their Origins. Melville, NY: Belwin Mills, 1973.

Rene Boyer-Alexander Expressions of Freedom: Complete Edition (Anthology of African-American Spirituals. Hal Leonard Publishing Corp., 2001.

Lawrence Brown Negro Folk Songs. London: Schott & Co.; New York: Associated Music, c1930.

Sebastian Brown Thirty Negro Spirituals (Books 1 & 2). London: Oxford University Press, 1972.

H. T. Burleigh Album of Negro Spirituals, Arranged for Solo Voice. Melville, N.Y.: Belwin Mills Pub. Corp., 1969. [High, Low].

H.T. Burleigh Negro Spirituals: From Bible To Folk Songs (2 Volumes in 1). AMS Press, 1995.

Bruno Chenu The Trouble I’ve Seen: The Big Book of Negro Spirituals. Cain Hope Felder, Judson Pr., 2003.

Lily Young Cohen Lost Spirituals: The Black Heritage Library Collection. Ayer Co. Pub., 1928.

Michael L. Cooper Slave Songs and the Jubilee Singers. Clarion Books, 2001.

Harold Courlander Negro Folk Music, USA, edited by Harold Courlander. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992.

Harold Courlander Negro Songs From Alabama, Transcribed by John Benson Brooks. N.Y.: Wenner Gren Foundation, 1960.
Natalie Curtis-Burlin Negro Folk Songs: The Hampton Series, Books I-IV, Edited by Natalie Curtis-Burlin. Dover Publications, 2001.

Dena J. Epstein Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Music in American Life. Univ. of Illinois Press, 2003

Hugo Frey Famous Negro Spirituals, Transcribed and Arranged by Hugo Frey. Warner Brothers Publications, 1999.

William Arms Fisher Seventy Negro Spirituals/ Edited by William Arms Fisher. [Boston]: Oliver Ditson Co., 1926. [High and Low].

Paul Glass Songs and Stories of Afro-Americans. N.Y.: Grosset and Dunlap Publishers, 1971.

Mary Allen Grissom The Negro Sings A New Heaven. N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 1969.

Philip Hattey Three Spirituals. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

Mark Hayes Ten Spirituals For Solo Voice [Medium High, Medium Low]. Alfred Publishing Co., 1998.

Roland Hayes My Favorite Spirituals: Thirty Songs For Voice and Piano/. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2001. [An Unabridged Republication of My Songs Aframerican Religious Folk Songs, arr. and Interpreted by Roland Hayes. Boston: Little Brown, 1948]

Nichol Beaulieu Herder Best Loved Negro Spirituals—Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of Faith, Nicol Beaulier Herder, editor, with Ronald Herder, compiler, and Paul T. Kwami. Dover Pubns, 2001.

Cynthia Hickman Spirituals: A Folk Anthology, compiled by Cynthia Hickman. Dunbar, Inc., 2002.

Moses Hogan The Deep River Collection: Ten Spirituals for Solo Voice & Piano. Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation: 2000 [High and Low].

Hall Johnson Thirty Spirituals Arranged for Voice and Piano. New York: G. Schirmer, 1949.

J. Rosamond Johnson Album Of Negro Spirituals, newly adapted and arranged. Hal Leonard, 1984.

James Weldon Johnson The Books of The American Negro Spirituals, Newly Adapted and Arranged by James Weldon Johnson, and J. Rosamond Johnson. Da Capo Press: 2002 [2 Vols in 1 Edition].

Arthur C. Jones Wade in the Water: The Wisdom of The Spirituals, by Arthur C. Jones, with an introduction by Vincent Harding. Orbis Books, 1999.

Victor Labenske Concert Hall Spirituals [Medium]. Woodland Music Press, 1999.

Hal Leonard African-American Spirituals (Hal Leonard Publishing Corp., 2000).

William A. Logan Road to Heaven: Twenty-Eight Negro Spirituals, Edited by Allen M. Garrett. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press, 1955.

Phillip McIntyre Spirituals For Church And Concert [Medium]. H. T. Fitzsimmons Co., 1997.

Richard Newman Go Down, Moses: A Celebration of the African American Spiritual, Illustrated by Terrance Cummings, with Preface by Cornel West. Clarkson N. Potter, Publisher, 1998.

Erskine Peters Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual: A Documentary Collection. West Port, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Franz Rupp Marian Anderson Album of Songs and Spirituals. New York: G. Schirmer [1948].

Shawnee Press Your Favorite Spirituals [Thirty-Five]. Delaware Gap, PA: Shawnee Press, Inc. 1966.

Jerry Silverman Slave Songs (Traditional Black Music), edited by Jerry Silverman. Chelsea Books, 1993.

Vivian Taylor Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers. Bryn Mawr, PA: Hildegard Publishing Co., 1995.

Velma Maia Thomas No Man Can Hinder Me: The Journey From Slavery To Emancipation Through Song. New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.

Howard Thurman Deep River: Reflections on Religious Insight of Certain of The Negro Spirituals, [Revised and Enlarged]. N.Y.: Harper, 1955.

Gwendolyn Sims Warren Ev’ry Time I Feel The Spirit: 101 Best Loved Psalms, Gospel Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of The African-American Church. Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1998

John Wesley Work American Negro Songs: 230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular. Mineola, NY: Dover Pubns., 1998.

Dr. Lourin Plant

Dr. Lourin Plant is a music professor at Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.), where he has served as coordinator of the vocal/choral division. He is a member of the National Association of Negro Musicians (Marian Anderson Guild), ACDA, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia.