Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture, 1770s-1920s by Eileen Southern & Josephine Wright

Author:Eileen Southern & Josephine Wright [Southern, Eileen & Wright, Josephine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Music, Ethnomusicology, History & Criticism, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, African American & Black Studies
ISBN: 9780815328759
Google: 8e-dPi-JHPQC
Publisher: TaylorFrancis
Published: 2000-09-15T20:28:33+00:00

Half the joy in life of the negro of the Mississippi Bends is derived from vocal melody…. Music enters into every fibre of his being,—into his daily toil, his religion, his passions, his loves. But, while many of his songs are secular or even vicious, by far the larger part are those that pertain to worship. It may be said, indeed, that almost all his religion is a service of song. The preacher intones not a little of his sermon; the congregation accompany with a low melody during fully one-half the preacher’s discourse; the prayers are often delivered to slow monotonous music by female voices; and actual intervals of the service are unknown, for the intervals are filled by hymns, some of them so long that they give one a decided respect for the negro’s powers of memory….6

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