Afro-American Hymnody

Black Spirituals

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The Spirituals Project

Negro Spiritual Composers (www.negrospirituals.com)

The Marian Anderson Exhibit: Spirituals in Recital (University of Pennsylvania)

The Negro Spiritual (Thomas Woodworth Higgins, 1867)

Slave Songs Transcend Sorrow (gospelcom.net)

Spirituals (Lectures on American Music at North Texas State University)

Fisk Jubilee Singers (organized in 1871)

John Wesley Work, Jr. (1872-1925)

John Wesley Work, III (1901-1967)

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

William Eleazar Barton (1861-1930)

Negro Folk Expression: Spirituals, Seculars, Ballads and Work songs

Reference Materials on the Negro Spiritual

The Colored Sacred Harp (1934)

Legends of Detroit Gospel

Black Music Roots from Scotland

The line connecting Gaelic psalm singing and American music -- Willie Ruff (horn player with Duke Ellington)

MIDI: Sweet Hour of Prayer


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