The sounds of slavery
Subtitle: discovering African American history through songs, sermons, and speech
By: Shane White and Graham White
Contributors: White, Graham J.
Series: African American music reference
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780807050286
Subjects: Social life and customs; History; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Language; Songs and music; African American Studies; Oral communication; Slavery; Aural history; Slaves; Ethnic Studies; Plantation life; African Americans; Songs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-234) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: The lords of sounds; title: "All we knowed was go and come by de bells and horns"; title: "To translate everyday experiences into living sound"; title: "De music [of the slaves] make dese Cab Calloways of today git to de woods an' hide; title: "Sing no hymns of your own composing"; title: "He can invent a plausible tale at a moment's warning"; title: "Boots or no boots, I gwine shout today!"; title: "When we had a black preacher that was heaven"; title: Soundtracks of the city: Charleston, New York, and New Orleans; title: Soundtracks of the city: Richmond in the 1850s; title: Epilogue: The sound of freedom; title: Notes; title: The sounds of slavery: Recordings of African American field calls, songs, prayers, and sermons.; title: CD: "Arwhoolie" holler / Thomas J. Marshall; title: Levee holler / Enoch Brown; title: Field holler / Roosevelt "Giant" Hudson; title: "Oh if your house catches fire" levee camp holler / Willie Henry Washington; title: "Roxie" / Convicts, Mississippi; title: "New buryin' ground" / John Brown and African American convicts; title: "Long hot summer day" / Clyde Hill and African American convicts; title: "Go preach my gospel" / Deacon Harvey Williams and the New Zion Baptist Church congregation; title: "Jesus, My God, I know his name" / Willie Henry Washington, Arthur Bell, Robert Lee Robertson and Abraham Powell; title: "Go to sleep" / Florida Hampton; title: "The buzzard and the cooter" / Demus Green; title: "Prayer" / Rev. Henry Ward; title: "Run, old Jeremiah" / Joe Washington Brown and Austin Coleman; title: "Job, Job" / Mandy Tartt, Sims Tartt and Betty Atmore; title: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" / Cilfford Reed, Johnny Mae Medlock and Julia Griffin; title: "Have mercy, Lord" / Mary Tollman and the Rev. Henry Ward; title: "The unusual task of the gospel preacher" / Rev. Harry Singleton; title: "The man of calvary" / Sin-Killer Griffin.