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Songs of Sorrow: Lucy Mckim Garrison and "Slave Songs of the United States"

By Samuel Charters

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9781628462067, titled "Songs of Sorrow: Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave Songs of the United States" | Univ Pr of Mississippi, April 29, 2015, cover price $55.00

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9780395719954, titled "Strategic Management Theory" | 3rd edition (Houghton Mifflin College Div, October 1, 1994), cover price $55.16 | also contains Strategic Management Theory

Nothing but Love in God's Water: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement

Product Description: The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression...read more

By Robert Darden

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9780271050843 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, October 24, 2014, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in Godâs Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression.

Paperback:

9780271064598 | Gardners Books, October 24, 2014, cover price $35.35 | About this edition: The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression.

9780373106134, titled "All That Heaven Allows" | Harlequin Books, July 1, 1983, cover price $1.95 | also contains All That Heaven Allows | About this edition: PAPERBACK

Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death, and Hope

Product Description: In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in contemporary preaching. Embracing the vision of the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 as a metaphor for preaching in the Spirit, acclaimed homiletician Luke Powery asserts that death is the context for all preaching...read more

By Luke A. Powery

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9780800698225 | Fortress Pr, July 1, 2012, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in contemporary preaching.

Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry

Product Description: This book restores the slaves' songs to their rightful place in American literature for their intrinsic value as lyric poetry, and as a touchstone of the American imagination.

By Lauri Ramey

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9781403975690 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 5, 2008, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature.

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9780230100343 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2010, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This book restores the slaves' songs to their rightful place in American literature for their intrinsic value as lyric poetry, and as a touchstone of the American imagination.

Autobiographical Reminiscences of African-american Classical Singers, 1853 - Present: Introducing Their Spiritual Heritage into the Concert Repertoire

Product Description: This comprehensive book of autobiographical writings, interviews, and articles reveals the thoughts and lives of African-American musicians, examining their place in musical performance and their role in introducing the Negro spiritual into the classical repertoire...read more

By Elizabeth Nash

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9780773452503 | Edwin Mellen Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $169.95 | About this edition: This comprehensive book of autobiographical writings, interviews, and articles reveals the thoughts and lives of African-American musicians, examining their place in musical performance and their role in introducing the Negro spiritual into the classical repertoire.

My Soul Is a Witness: The Message of the Spirituals in Word And Song

Product Description: This work provides insights into the spiritual depth and power of African American spirituals. It describes the history, the people and the circumstances behind these spiritual songs. Each chapter includes a Bible passage for personal reflection...read more

By Marsha Hansen

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9780806652856 | Har/com edition (Augsburg Fortress Pub, May 23, 2006), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This work provides insights into the spiritual depth and power of African American spirituals.

The Trouble I'Ve Seen: The Big Book of Negro Spirituals

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By Bruno Chenu and Eugene V. Laplante (trans)

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9780817014483 | Pap/com edition (Judson Pr, September 1, 2003), cover price $20.00

Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War

Examines the development of Black folk music in the United States in light of the cultural heritage of the slaves and the cultural patterns influencing them in America

By Dena J. Epstein

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9780252005206 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Examines the development of Black folk music in the United States in light of the cultural heritage of the slaves and the cultural patterns influencing them in America

Paperback:

9780252071508 | Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $33.00

9780252008757 | Univ of Illinois Pr, March 1, 1981, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Examines the development of Black folk music in the United States in light of the cultural heritage of the slaves and the cultural patterns influencing them in America

No Man Can Hinder Me: The Journey from Slavery to Emancipation Through Song

An interactive book-and-CD package by the author of Lest We Forget documents the harsh realities of slavery and the spirit of African-American people determined to seek their freedom, in a collection of musical numbers that trace the history and evolution of the African-American spiritual. 25,000 first printing.

By Velma Maia Thomas

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9780609607190 | Har/com edition (Crown Pub, September 1, 2001), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: An interactive book-and-CD package documents the harsh realities of slavery and the spirit of African American people determined to seek their freedom.

9780756766061 | Har/com edition (Diane Pub Co, October 1, 2000), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In an extraordinary book and CD package, the talented, charismatic author of Lest We Forget chronicles the harsh realities of slavery and brilliantly brings to life the spirit of a people determined to be free.

Wade in the Water: The Wisdom of the Spirituals

Product Description: A psychologist and musician reveals how the spirituals embody a rich tradition of values, particularly in human relationships, community, and hope.

By Arthur C. Jones

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9780883449233 | Orbis Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A psychologist and musician reveals how the spirituals embody a rich tradition of values, particularly in human relationships, community, and hope.

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9781570752889 | Orbis Books, July 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A psychologist and musician reveals how the spirituals embody a rich tradition of values, particularly in human relationships, community, and hope.

Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature

Product Description: Donald Matthews affirms once and for all the African foundation of African-American religious practice. His analysis of the methods employed by historians, social scientists, and literary critics in the study of African-American religion and the Negro spiritual leads him to develop a methodology that encompasses contemporary scholarship without compromising the integrity of African-American religion and culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Donald Henry Matthews

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9780195091045 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 2, 1998, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Donald Matthews affirms once and for all the African foundation of African-American religious practice.

Choral Arrangements of the African-American Spirituals: Historical Overview and Annotated Listings

Product Description: Although the choral arrangements of the African-American spirituals constitute the largest group of folk song arrangements in western literature, they have received little scholarly attention. This book provides the needed historical and stylistic information about the spirituals and the arrangements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Patricia Johnson Trice

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9780313302114 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 28, 1998, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Although the choral arrangements of the African-American spirituals constitute the largest group of folk song arrangements in western literature, they have received little scholarly attention.

Exorcising Evil: A Womanist Perspective on the Spirituals

Product Description: The Spirituals, born in the early history of the United States, still anchor the soul and awaken the history of much of the African-American community today. Writing from a womanist perspective, theologian Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan probes what the Spirituals say about the action of God in the face of racial injustice and oppression...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan

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9781570751462 | Orbis Books, October 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The Spirituals, born in the early history of the United States, still anchor the soul and awaken the history of much of the African-American community today.

The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation

Cone explores two classic aspects of African-American culture--the spirituals and the blues. He tells the captivating story of how slaves and the children of slaves used this music to affirm their essential humanity in the face of oppression. The blues are shown to be a "this-worldly" expression of cultural and political rebellion. The spirituals tell about the "attempt to carve out a significant existence in a very trying situation." (view table of contents)

By James H. Cone

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9780883447475 | Reprint edition (Orbis Books, September 1, 1991), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Cone explores two classic aspects of African-American culture--the spirituals and the blues.

Paperback:

9780883448434 | Reprint edition (Orbis Books, September 1, 1992), cover price $16.00

Black Song: The Forge and the Flame : The Story of How the Afro-American Spiritual Was Hammered Out

By John Lovell

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9780913729533 | Reprint edition (Paragon House, November 1, 1986), cover price $14.95

All That Heaven Allows

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By Anne Weale

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9780373106134 | Harlequin Books, July 1, 1983, cover price $1.95 | also contains Nothing but Love in God's Water: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement | About this edition: PAPERBACK

Spiritual and the Blues: An Interpretation

By James H. Cone

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9780313226670 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1980, cover price $22.50

White and Negro Spirituals: Their Life Span and Kinship

Interprets the two-hundred-year history of the religious folk song traditions of white and black American cultures

By George P. Jackson

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9780306706677 | Da Capo Pr, July 1, 1975, cover price $56.50 | About this edition: Interprets the two-hundred-year history of the religious folk song traditions of white and black American cultures

Old Plantation Hymns

By William Eleazar Barton

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9780404099183 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1972, cover price $30.25

Black Song: The Forge and the Flame; The Story of How the Afro-American Spiritual Was Hammered Out.

A history of the black spiritual, examines the characteristics of the songs and the events that inspired their writing

By John Lovell

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9780025757004 | Macmillan Pub Co, May 1, 1972, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A history of the black spiritual, examines the characteristics of the songs and the events that inspired their writing

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