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Spiritual. Songwriter (s) Unknown. Composer (s) unknown. " Wade in the Water " ( Roud 5439) is an African American jubilee song, a spiritual —in reference to a genre of music "created and first sung by African Americans in slavery." [1] The lyrics to "Wade in the Water" were first co-published in 1901 in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk ...
by Randye Jones. Baritone, composer and educator Edward Hammond Boatner was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 13 November 1898. His father, Dr. Daniel Webster Boatner, was a former slave who became an itinerant minister. Edward Boatner was exposed at an early age to the music sung by African Americans in the churches where his father preached.
All you need to know on the history of the Negro Spirituals. ... Robert S. STAROBIN, « Blacks in Bondage. Letters of American Slaves", Barnes and Noble Books, York, 1988
Histórico. A música tem o nome de spiritual por ser quase uma canção de inspiração do escravo negro. Embora às vezes o spiritual seja alegre e num andamento mais allegro com o chamado Shout (em português, "grito"), para a dança entre eles, grande parte dos spirituals tem um tom manso, num andamento "largo" e meditativo e, os negros, acorrentados, poderiam cantar sentados e a capella.
1893–1948. William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was an American composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues. [1] [2] He was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. [3] One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the ...
Funding for Great Performances: The Magic of Spirituals was provided by Leni and Peter May.Series funding for Great Performances is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the ...
Life. Of African American heritage, William Dawson was born in Anniston, Alabama. In 1912, Dawson ran away from home to study music full-time as a pre-college student at the Tuskegee Institute (now University) under the tutelage of school president Booker T. Washington. Dawson paid his tuition by being a music librarian and manual laborer ...
