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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jackson, George Pullen, 1874-1953. White spirituals in the southern uplands. New York : Dover Publications, 1965 (OCoLC)652274611 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George Pullen Jackson |
| OCLC Number: | 359857 |
| Notes: | Includes unacc. melodies. "An unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1933." |
| Description: | xvi, 444 p., [36] p. of plates : ill., ports., music, facsims. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. I : the old fasola folk -- Beginnings of American group singing in New England -- Early shape-note singing schools : their spread to the west and south -- In the Shenandoah Valley -- A Missouri book, two in Kentucky, one in middle Tennessee -- Virginia again ; east Tennessee -- "Singin' Billy" Walker and his southern harmony -- Two Georgians and their work -- Benjamin Franklin White of Georgia and his associates -- The sacred harp -- The sacred harpers -- A sacred harp singing convention in Texas -- The songs themselves : eighty most popular tunes -- Song titles, sources, colloquialisms -- Celtic melodic idiom -- Dance tunes : other secular features -- Ballads of religious experience, bad women, bad men, biblical events -- Song classification -- Spiritual songs born in camp-meetings -- Tunes of the white man's spirituals preserved in the negro's religious songs -- White man's and negro's spiritual texts compared -- City church folk slowly abandon the south's indigenous songs -- Pt. II : fasola offspring, the dorayme folk -- Aikin's seven shapes ; other sets -- "Old harp singers" of eastern Tennessee and their book -- Other seven-shape song books -- Numeral notations and others used by Southern rurals -- New styles in songs, books, and notations -- Benjamin Unseld and the normal schools -- Rural shape-note song books by the million -- Who makes the songs? -- Rural song meets people's tastes -- Musical periodicals and other propaganda -- "God's music" in the country churches -- Shape-notes and dorayme songs among the Indians -- Struggle for existence. |
| Series Title: | Dover books, T1425 |
| Other Titles: | Spirituals in the southern uplands. |
| Responsibility: | George Pullen Jackson. |
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