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If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me : The African American Sacred Song Tradition Paperback - 2001
by Bernice Johnson Reagon
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- Title If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me : The African American Sacred Song Tradition
- Author Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 155
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE & London
- Date 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0803289839I4N00
- ISBN 9780803289833 / 0803289839
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.39 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 0.99 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Gospel music - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00055231
- Dewey Decimal Code 782.254
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From the rear cover
How do you survive leaving everything you know to try to reconstruct your life and future in a new way? What do you carry with you on your journey to the new place?
Migration as a theme looms large in twentieth-century African American life. Bernice Johnson Reagon uses this theme as a centering structure for four essays that examine different genres of African American sacred music as they manifested themselves throughout the twentieth century and within her own personal life. The first essay examines the evolution of gospel music by looking at the work of Charles Albert Tindley, Thomas Andrew Dorsey, Reverend Smallwood Williams, Roberta Martin, Pearl William Jones, and Richard Smallwood. In the next essay Reagon relates the story of Deacon William Reardon and the prayer bands that carried the tradition of South Carolina spirituals through the twentieth century in the communities of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. The concert spiritual tradition is the subject of the third essay, and the final essay explores how stories about African American women of the nineteenth century became a source of strength for Reagon in her development as an African American woman, singer, fighter, and scholar.
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- Booklist, 02/15/2001, Page 1100