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Tables of Contents for Readings in African American Church Music and Worship
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xiii
Acknowledgements
xvi
I. Historical Perspectives
``Of the Faith of the Fathers''
3
12
``The Negro Spiritual''
15
12
``Introducing the African American Churches''
27
12
``The Performed Word: Music and the Black Church''
39
38
``The Use and Performance of Hymnody, Spirituals, and Gospels in the Black Church''
77
22
Introduction: ``In the World, but Not of It''
99
18
II. Surveys of Hymnals and Hymnody
``African American Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Neglected Source''
117
20
``Hymnals of the Black Church''
137
16
``Published Hymnals in the African American Tradition''
153
14
``Black Hymnody''
167
18
``Hymnody of the African American Church''
185
16
III. Liturgical Hymnody
``The Liturgy of the Roman Rite and African American Worship''
201
8
``The Gift of African American Sacred Song''
209
8
``Music Among Blacks in the Episcopal Church: Some Preliminary Considerations''
217
18
``Introduction: Why an African American Hymnal?''
235
4
``Hymns and Songs: Performance Notes''
239
8
``Service Music: Performance Notes''
247
2
``Worship and Culture: An African American Lutheran Perspective''
249
8
``Leading African American Song''
257
10
IV. Worship
``Worship Activities''
267
14
``The Tradition of Worship''
281
16
``Some Aspects of Black Worship''
297
18
``The Liturgy of Zion: The Soul of Black Worship''
315
12
``Encountering Jesus in Worship''
327
12
``The Dynamics of Black Worship: A Psychosocial Exploration of the Impulses That Lie at the Roots of Black Worship''
339
14
``Definitions of Praising and a Look at Black Worship''
353
26
``Indicted''
379
6
V. Composers
``Church Music by Black Composers: A Bibliography of Choral Music''
385
24
``Introduction''
409
10
``Black Composers and Religious Music''
419
10
VI. The Organ
``A History of the Pipe Organ in the Black Church''
429
4
``The Church Organist, African American Organ Music, and the Worship Service: A Useful Guide''
433
12
``Service Playing for Organists''
445
14
VII. Contemporary Perspectives
``What Lies Ahead?''
459
22
``Conflict and Controversy in Black Religious Music''
481
18
``Church Music: A Position Paper'' (with special consideration of music in the Black Church)
499
20
``Music and Worship in the Black Church''
519
6
``Black Sacred Music: Problems and Possibilities''
525
6
``Christ Against Culture: Anticulturalism in the Gospel of Gospel''
531
22
``I Am the Holy Dope Dealer: The Problem with Gospel Music Today''
553
38
Contributors
591