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The sounds of slavery discovering African American history through songs, sermons, and speech
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The sounds of slavery [electronic resource] : discovering African American history through songs, sermons, and speech / Shane White and Graham White.
ISBN
9780807050286
0807050288
0807050261
9780807050262
080705027X
9780807050279
Published
Boston : Beacon Press, ©2005.
Physical Description
1 online resource ( xxii, 241 pages)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Other formats
Print version: White, Shane. Sounds of slavery. Boston : Beacon Press, ©2005
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 08, 2020
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-234) and index.
Contents
The lords of sounds
"All we knowed was go and come by de bells and horns"
"To translate everyday experiences into living sound"
"De music [of the slaves] make dese Cab Calloways of today git to de woods an' hide
"Sing no hymns of your own composing"
"He can invent a plausible tale at a moment's warning"
"Boots or no boots, I gwine shout today!"
"When we had a black preacher that was heaven"
Soundtracks of the city: Charleston, New York, and New Orleans
Soundtracks of the city: Richmond in the 1850s
Epilogue: The sound of freedom
Notes
The sounds of slavery: Recordings of African American field calls, songs, prayers, and sermons.
CD: "Arwhoolie" holler / Thomas J. Marshall
Levee holler / Enoch Brown
Field holler / Roosevelt "Giant" Hudson
"Oh if your house catches fire" levee camp holler / Willie Henry Washington
"Roxie" / Convicts, Mississippi
"New buryin' ground" / John Brown and African American convicts
"Long hot summer day" / Clyde Hill and African American convicts
"Go preach my gospel" / Deacon Harvey Williams and the New Zion Baptist Church congregation
"Jesus, My God, I know his name" / Willie Henry Washington, Arthur Bell, Robert Lee Robertson and Abraham Powell
"Go to sleep" / Florida Hampton
"The buzzard and the cooter" / Demus Green
"Prayer" / Rev. Henry Ward
"Run, old Jeremiah" / Joe Washington Brown and Austin Coleman
"Job, Job" / Mandy Tartt, Sims Tartt and Betty Atmore
"Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" / Cilfford Reed, Johnny Mae Medlock and Julia Griffin
"Have mercy, Lord" / Mary Tollman and the Rev. Henry Ward
"The unusual task of the gospel preacher" / Rev. Harry Singleton
"The man of calvary" / Sin-Killer Griffin.
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