Black Music Research Journal articles from September 2004

Black Music Research Journal archives from September 2004

Editor's introduction.(Harry T. Burleigh )(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... The articles on the life and work of African-American composer-singer-arranger Harry T. Burleigh featured in this issue of Black Music Research Journal originated in presentations at the 2003 national conference "The Heritage and Legacy of...

The invisibility and fame of Harry T. Burleigh: retrospect and prospect.
September 22, 2004... April 2, 2003, saw the opening of a three-day conference, The Heritage and Legacy of Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949), designed to address and celebrate the contributions of this singer, composer, vocal coach, pianist, teacher, editor, and...

Harry T. Burleigh, "one of Erie's most popular church singers".(Biography)
September 22, 2004... Harry T. Burleigh has been recognized primarily as the singer who introduced Antonin Dvorak to plantation songs and spirituals and as a pioneer arranger of African-American spirituals. In the past several decades, more and more singers have...

"A certain strangeness": Harry T. Burleigh's art songs and spiritual arrangements.(Biography)
September 22, 2004... "It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them," wrote poet Hilaire Belloc (1917, 6). Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) certainly enjoyed the best of both pursuits, combining a long, distinguished performing career...

The foundational influence of spirituals in African-American culture: a psychological perspective.
September 22, 2004... There is a voluminous body of published scholarship on the history and cultural influence of the African-American spirituals tradition, beginning a century ago with a series of essays by W.E.B. Du Bois (1989) in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)....

The use of dialect in African-American spirituals, popular songs, and folk songs.
September 22, 2004... The presence of vocal works that use dialect in African-American culture has been a controversial and difficult area of inquiry for those investigating the phenomenon. Dialect songs were first heard in the minstrel shows that toured the United...

Harry Burleigh as ethnomusicologist? Transcription, arranging, and the Old Songs Hymnal.(Biography)
September 22, 2004... Harry Burleigh's demeanor has been described variously by some of the younger artists of the Harlem Renaissance as elegant and refined or as aloof and removed. Although many saw dignity in Burleigh's bearing as well as in his artistic...