Black Music Research Journal articles from March 1999

Black Music Research Journal archives from March 1999

RELIGION IN RHYTHM: WILLIAM GRANT STILL'S ORCHESTRATIONS FOR WILLARD ROBISON'S DEEP RIVER HOUR.
March 22, 1999... [H]armony... is not regarded by the intelligent votary of the Muses as given by them with a view to irrational pleasure... but as meant to correct any discord which may have arisen in the courses of the soul, and to be our ally in bringing...

WILLIAM DAWSON, "THE NEW NEGRO," AND HIS FOLK IDIOM.
March 22, 1999... William Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony is characteristically American because of the manner in which it fuses previously established sociocultural hierarchies: so-called high-brow and low-brow, black and white, American and European, sacred and...

FLETCHER HENDERSON, COMPOSER: A COUNTER-ENTRY TO THE INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF BLACK COMPOSERS.
March 22, 1999... In writing about Fletcher Henderson for the International Dictionary of Black Composers (IDBC), I faced a challenge shared by many of that dictionary's contributors. The challenge was not simply to choose four compositions that best revealed my...

HOME SWEET HOME: JUNKANOO AS NATIONAL DISCOURSE IN THE BAHAMAS.
March 22, 1999... Wake up early one morning, Kiss my mama good-bye. "Going back to de island," I say, "Don't worry mama, don't cry." With this refrain--in words so clearly expressive of travel, displacement, kinship, and the concepts of...

THE PRAIRIE VIEW CO-EDS: BLACK COLLEGE WOMEN MUSICIANS IN CLASS AND ON THE ROAD DURING WORLD WAR II.
March 22, 1999... The absence of millions of men have [sic] left vacancies in many fields which are rapidly being filled by the fairer sex. At PV, in order that music may still be kept alive, the co-eds have taken over the horns and strings with tremendous...