Black Music by William Morrow & Co $10.00
In the essay Jazz and the White Critic” LeRoi Jones observes: Most jazz critics have been white Americans, but most important jazz musicians have not been.” In Black Music, his perceptive and provocative collection of articles, reviews, profiles, interviews, liner notes, and new essays, Jones has offered a remedy of sorts. In brilliant discussions of Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk,...
Kerala Dream by Sounds True $9.82
Deep River and The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death by Friends United Press $14.00
Dr. Howard Thurman explores how protest and resistance are expressed in spirituals as well as how these songs have been a "spiritual watering hole" in his life..
Songs of the Seder : A Music Book to Accompany the Passover Haggadah, Second Edition by Granite Hills Pr $15.95
This compact and conveniently sized volume contains the music and lyrics of 23 Passover seder songs, prayers, and chants, and presents them in the order in which they appear in the seder. The book can therefore accompany any haggadah. The book contains traditional and contemporary melodies. The lyrics are in transliteration of Hebrew or Aramaic and also in English. The arrangements are...
Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World by Schirmer Trade Books, New York,1999. $33.25
Complete Mission Praise by HARPER COLLINS 6 REL
Musicmakers of West Africa by Passeggiata Press
Ars Et Musica in Liturgia by Scarecrow Press $52.80
Most articles appear in English, but those written in German or Dutch are followed by summaries in English.
Horatio Parker, 1863-1919 by Scarecrow Press $66.00
During the early 1900s, Horatio Parker was one of the best-known composers in the United States. He received numerous commissions and was a patriarchal figure among America's Protestant church musicians and choral societies; his symphonic works were performed by the leading orchestras of the day; and he headed the Yale School of Music for twenty-five years. Kearns's study is a thorough analysis...