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Bibliography

BOOKS AND PERIODICALS

Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. New York: A. Simpson, 1867.
Bowen, Meirion. The Contemporary Composers: Michael Tippett. London: Robson Books, Ltd., 1981.
Burnim, Mellonee V. and Portia K. Maultsby, eds. African American Music: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, Taylor, and Francis Group, 2006.
Crawford, Richard. An Introduction to America’s Music. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001.
Epstein, Dena J. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
Jackson, Bruce, ed. The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.
Matthews, David. Michael Tippett: An Introductory Study. London: Faber and Faber, 1980.
Maultsby, Portia. “African American Traditional Music: Cultural Traditions and Aesthetics.” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Rev. ed., 2000.
“The Use and Performance of Hymnody, Spirituals, and Gospels in the Black Church.” Hymnology Annual, 1992.
Murphy, Jeanette Robinson. “The Survival of African American Music in America.” Popular Science Monthly. New York, 1899.
Patterson, Lindsay, ed. The Negro in Music and Art. New York: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1969.
Quam, Alison, ed. American Negro Spirituals Performed by the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble. New York: The Lincoln Center Institute, 1993.
Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History, 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997.
Southern, Eileen and Josephine Wright. Iconography of Music in African-American Culture 1770s–1920s. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000.
Tippett, Michael. Tippett on Music. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1995.
Titon, Jeff, ed. Worlds of Music. Boston: Thomson Schirmer, 2005.

DISCOGRAPHY

A Child of Our Time. Sir Colin Davis, conductor, Decca Label Group, 1975.
Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs, and Ballads. The Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture. Rounder CD 1510, 1998.
Anderson, Marian. Marian Anderson: Spirituals. BMG Classics. 09026-63306-2, 1999.
Battle, Kathleen and Jessye Norman. Spirituals in Concert. Deutsche Grammophone, CD 429 790-2, 1991.
Been in the Storm so Long: Spirituals, Folk Tales, and Children’s Games from John’s Island. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SF 40031, 1990.
Fisk Jubilee Singers. In Bright Mansions. Curb Productions, Inc. / Fisk University, 2003.
Rise, Shine! The Fisk Jubilee Singers Live in Concert. Fisk Jubilee Singers, Paul T. Kwami, producer. Fisk University CD19901, 1999.
Sacred Journey. Sunrise Entertainment, Inc., 2007.
John’s Island, South Carolina: Its People and Songs. Folkways Records, 1973.
Negro Work Songs and Calls. The Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture. Rounder CD 1517, 1999.
Robeson, Paul. Paul Robeson Spirituals: Original Recordings 1925–1936. Naxos Gospel 8.120638, 2003.
The Harlem Spiritual Ensemble. In Concert. Arcadia ARC 1991-2, 1991.

PRINTED MUSIC

Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. New York: A. Simpson, 1867.
Burleigh, Harry T. The Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh. Miami: Belwin Mills Publishing Corp., 1984.
Johnson, James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson. The Books of American Negro Spirituals. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.
Silber, Irwin. Songs of the Civil War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
Silverman, Jerry. Of Thee I Sing: Lyrics and Music for America’s Most Patriotic Songs. New York: Citadel Press, 2002.
Tippett, Michael. A Child of Our Time: Oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra with text and music by Michael Tippett. Mainz: Schott, 1944.
Williams, Arthur B. Jr., ed. Lift Every Voice and Sing II: An African American Hymnal. New York: The Church Pension Fund, 1993.
Work, John W. American Negro Songs: 230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious, and Secular. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1998.

VIDEOGRAPHY

A Spiritual Journey with the Fisk Jubilee Singers. DVD. Fisk Jubilee Singers. Tennessee Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Masterpieces Initiative, 2007.
Matthew Kennedy: One Man’s Journey. DVD. Directed and produced by Nina Kennedy, 2006.
Sacred Journey. DVD. Fisk Jubilee Singers. Sunrise Entertainment, Inc., 2007.
Revelations: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

PERELMAN AMERICAN ROOTS PLAYLIST CREDITS

“Goin’ Up to Glory (No More Auction Block for Me)”
Written by Andre J. Thomas
© 1999 Heritage Music Press / Lorenz Corporation (admin. by Music Services)
All rights reserved. ASCAP
Performed by the Fisk Jubilee Singers
From the album Rise, Shine! © 1999
Courtesy of Fisk University

“Wade in the Water”
Traditional Spiritual Arranged by Dr. Paul T. Kwami
Performed by the Fisk Jubilee Singers
From the album In Bright Mansions © 2003
Courtesy of Curb Productions, Inc. / Fisk University

“Rise, Shine, for Thy Light Is a’ Comin’”
Written by John W. Work III
© 1940 by Theodore Presser Company. Copyright renewed.
All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Performed by the Fisk Jubilee Singers
From the album Rise, Shine! © 1999
Courtesy of Fisk University

“I Want to Be a Christian”
Traditional Spiritual Arranged by Moses Hogan
© 1996 by HAL LEONARD CORPORATION
International copyright secured. All rights reserved.
Performed by the Fisk Jubilee Singers
From the album Rise, Shine! © 1999
Courtesy of Fisk University

“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
Traditional Spiritual Arranged by Dr. Paul T. Kwami
Performed by the Fisk Jubilee Singers
From the album Rise, Shine! © 1999
Courtesy of Fisk University

“Free At Last”
Performed by Kim and Reggie Harris
From the album Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad © 1998
Courtesy of Appleseed Recordings

“Amazing Grace”
Performed by Mahalia Jackson
From the album The Essential Mahalia Jackson © 2000
Courtesy of Apollo Records and Malaco Records

“Wade in the Water”
Traditional Spiritual Adapted and Arranged by Howard A. Roberts, WC Music Corp. on behalf of Minesown Music Publishing
Words and Music for “A Man Went Down to the River” by Ella Jenkins, Kohaw Music / Kohaw Music on behalf of Appleseed Music
From Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Revelations album © 1998
Courtesy of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

“Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham”
Adapted and Arranged by Howard A. Roberts
WC Music Corp. on behalf of Minesown Music Publishing
From Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Revelations album © 1998
Courtesy of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater