REFERENCE MATERIALS ON THE NEGRO SPIRITUAL

WEBSITES OF INTEREST

SELECGTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Afro-America Sings. Detroit: Board of Education of the City of Detroit, 1971.

Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware & Lucy McKim Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. New York: P. Smith , c1867.

Anderson, Walter F.Look Away: 50 Negro Folk Songs. Delaware, OH: Cooperative Recreation Service, Inc. n.d.

Armstrong, M. F. (Mary Frances). Hampton and its students. By two of its teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With
fifty cabin and plantation songs, arranged by Thomas F. Fenner. New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1874.

Ballanta-Taylor, Nicholas George Julius. Saint Helena Island Spirituals. New York: G. Schirmer Inc., 1925.

Baptist Hymnal. Nashville: Conventon Press, 1975.

Barton, William E. Old Plantation Hymns. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co., 1899.

Blood-Patterson, Peter. Rise Up Singing. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Publication, 1988.

Brown, Lawrence. Negro Folk Songs. London: Schorr; New York: Associated Music Publishers, c1930.

Bryan, Ashley. Walk Together Children: Black American Spirituals. [United States]: Atheneum, c1974.

Bryan, Ashley.All Night All Day: A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals. New York: Atheneum, c1991.

Burleigh, H. T. Album of Negro Spirituals. Melville, N.Y.: Belwin Mills, c1969.

Burleigh, Harry T. Plantation Melodies Old and New. New York: G. Schirmer, 1901.

Burleigh, Harry T. The Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh. Melville, N.Y.: Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp., 1984.

Cleveland, J. Jefferson and Verolga Nix. Songs of Zion. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1981.

Courlander, Harold. Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.

Dett, R. Nathaniel. Spirituals. New York: Mills Music, c1964.

Dett, R. Nathaniel. The Dett collection of Negro Spirituals. Chicago: Hall & McCreary Co., c1936.

Dett, R. Nathaniel. Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro as Sung at Hampton Institute. Hampton, VA: Hampton Institute Press, 1927.

Diton, Carl. Thirty-Six South Carolina Spirituals. New York: G. Schirmer Inc., c1928.

Fenner, Thomas P. Cabin and Plantation Songs. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1892.

Fisher. Seventy Negro Spirituals. Boston : O. Ditson Co., c1926.

Fisher, William Arms. Ten Negro Spirituals. Boston: O. Ditson, 1925.

Glass, Paul. Songs and Stories of Afro-Americans. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971.

Hallowell, Emily. Calhoun Plantation Songs. New York: AMS Press, 1976.

Johnson, Hall. The Green Pastures Spirituals. New York: Carl Fischer, c1930.

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

Johnson, James Weldon. The Second Book of Negro Spirituals. New York: The Viking Press, 1926.

Johnson, James Weldon. The Book of American Negro Spirituals. New York: The Viking Press, 1925.

Johnston, Richard. Folk Songs North America Sings. Toronto: Caveat Music Publishers, Ltd., 1984.

Jubilee songs: as sung by the Jubilee Singers, of Fisk University, (Nashville, Tenn.) under the auspices of the American Missionary
Association. New York, Chicago, Biglow & Main [c1872]

Kennedy, Robert Emmet. Mellows: A Chronicle of Unknown Singers. New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925.

Kennedy, Robert Emmett. More Mellows. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1931.

Krehbiel, Henry Edward. Afro-American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company,
1967.

Lanstaff, John ed. Climbing Jacob's Ladder: Heroes of the Bible in African- American Spirituals. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International,
c1991.

Little, Charles F., Jr. Praise Him With the Gospel. Lexington, KY: C.F.L. Music Publishing Co., c1983.
vol. 1

Logan, William Augustus. Road to Heaven: Twenty-eight Negro Spirituals. University of Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1955.

Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomax. Our singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs. New York: Macmillan
Company, 1941.

Ludlow, Helen Wilhelmina. Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School, for training colored teachers, at Tuskegee, Alabama ... Its story and its
songs. Hampton, Va., Normal School Press, 1884.

McIlhenny, E.A. Befo' de War Spirituals. NY: AMS Press, 1973.

NAACP Song Book: Lift Ev'ry Voice. New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1972.

Niles, John J. Seven Exhaltations. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1929.

Odum, Howard, and Guy B. Johnson. The Negro and His Song: A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South. Westport, Connecticut: Negro
Universities Press, 1968.

Parrish, Lydia. Slave songs of the Georgia Sea Islands. New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., 1968.

Peters, Erskine. Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Religious Folk songs of the Negro as Sung on the Plantations. Arr. by the musical directors of The Hampton Normal and Agricultural
Institute. Hampton, VA: The Instutute Press, 1918.

Seward, T.F. Jubilee Songs. New York; Chicago: Biglow & Main, c1872.

Tobit, Janet E. A Book of Negro Songs. Pleasantville, NY, 1950.

White, Clarence Cameron. Forty Negro Spirituals. Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Co., 1927.

Work, Frederick J. New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singer. Nashville: Fisk University, 1902.

Work, John W. American Negro Songs and Spirituals. New York: Bonanza Books, 1940.,

John Wesley Work(Editor) American Negro Songs : 230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular
/ Paperback / Published 1998

Work, John W. Folk songs of the American Negro. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.

PARTIAL DISCOGRAPHY

U.S. Releases: CDs/cassetts
Amazing Grace - American Hymns & Spirituals / Robert Shaw
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1993

An American Heritage Of Spirituals
Mormon Tabernacle Choir / Audio CD / Released 1997

The American Vocalist - Spirituals, 1850-1870 / Cohen
William Billings(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1992

Black Christmas - Spirituals in African-American Tradition
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1998

Deep River - H.T. Burleigh: Songs, Spirituals / Moses, et al /Mos es etc
Henry Thacker Burleigh(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1999

Derek Lee Ragin - Negro Spirituals / Moses Hogan Chorale
Derek Lee Ragin / Audio CD / Released 1999

Dorothy Maynor - Spirituals, Arias, Songs
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1995

The Essential Leontyne Price - Spirituals, Hymns, etc
Henry Thacker Burleigh(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1997

Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit - Spirituals / Derek Lee Ragin
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1993

Give me Jesus - Spirituals / Barbara Hendricks, et al
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1999

Great American Spirituals / Battle, Hendricks, Quivar
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1992

Jester Hairston - Spirituals / Belmont Chorale, Kelly
Belmont Chorale / Audio CD / Released 1995

Marian Anderson - Spirituals - He's got the whole world...
Marian Anderson / Audio CD / Released 1994

Negro Spirituals / Davis, Hynninen, Ranta
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1992

Roland Hayes - Favorite Spirituals
Roland Hayes(Composer), Reginald Boardman (Performer) / Audio CD / Released 1995

Spirituals / Conrad, Hopkins, Convent Avenue Concert Choir
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1995

Spirituals / Jessye Norman, Ambrosian Singers
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1987

Spirituals / Marian Anderson
Traditional(Composer), Marian Anderson (Performer) / Audio CD / Released 1995

Spirituals / Martina Arroyo, Henri Venanzi
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1996

Spirituals in Concert / Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman
Battle, Norman / Audio CD / Released 1991
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Trav'ling Home - American Spirituals 1770-1870 / Joel Cohen
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1996

Wilhelmina Fernandez Sings Favorite Spirituals / Darden
Traditional(Composer), et al / Audio CD / Released 1997

Famous Spirituals
Simon Estes / Audio CD / Released 1998

 

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