RT Book
T1 The Book of American Negro Spirituals
A2 Johnson, James Weldon 1871-1938
A2 Johnson, John Rosamond 1873-1954
A2 Brown, Lawrence 1907-1988
LA English
PP New York
PB Viking Press
YR 1925
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1408578638
AB This stirring collection of Negro spirituals, edited by the great Negro poet James Weldon Johnson and arranged for voice and piano by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson, presents 120 of these melodic—and intensely moving—religious folk songs for contemporary performance. The original language has been faithfully preserved in this convenient performing edition, so that the spirituals can be sung today exactly as they were more than a hundred years ago. [...] The songs are prefaced by James Weldon Johnson's masterful discussions of their origins, musical quality, and historical significance. Above all, he stresses the essential dignity of the Negro spirituals, which, though no doubt inspired by the religious faith of their masters, “are purely and solely the creation of the American Negro.”
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