ISSN: 1094-902X
Volume 1, Number 2 (Spring 1998) 

Spirituals: A Research Bibliography

By Richard Newman, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University and author of Go Down Moses: Celebrating the African American Spiritual. NY: Clarkson Potter, Inc., 1998.
 

Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, eds., Slave Songs of the United States. NY: dover Publications, Inc., 1955. Reprint of the 1867 edition.

Cataliotti, Robert H. The Music in African American Fiction. NY: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995.

Carawan, Guy and Candie Carawan. Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs. Bethlehem: Sing Out, 1990.

Cone, James H.  The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation. NY: Seabury Press, 1972.

Du Bois, William E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. NY: Bantam Books, 1989. Reprint of the 1903 edition.

Epstein, Dena J. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Fisher, Miles Mark. Negro Slave Songs of the United States. NY: Citadel Press, 1990. Reprint of the 1953 edition.

Hurston, Zora Neale. "Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals." Nancy Cunard, ed. Negro Anthology Made by Nancy Cunard 1931-1933. London: Wishart and Co., 1934, 359-361.

Johnson, James Weldon, and J. Rosamond Johnson. The Books of American Negro Spirituals, Including The Book of American Negro Spirituals and the Second Book of Negro Spirituals. NY: DaCapa Press, 1969. Reprint of 1925 and 1926 editions.

Lewis, Theophilus. "The Negro Spirituals As Hymns of a People."  America 61 (April 22, 1939), 43-44.

Lovell, John, Jr. Black Song: The Forge and the Flame.  The Story of How the Afro-American Spiritual was Hammered Out. NY: Paragon House, 1986. Reprint of the 1972 edition.

Levine, Lawrence W. "Slave Songs and Slave Consciousness: An Exploration in Neglected Sources." Timothy E. Fulop and Albert J. Raboteau, eds., African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture. NY: Routledge, 1997, 57-87.

Marsh, J.B.T. The Story of the Jubilee Singers; With Their Songs. Rev. ed., Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1880.

Peters, Erskine, ed. Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual: A Documentary Collection. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. NY: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Radano, Ronald. "The Writing of the Spirituals." Critical Inquiry 22 (Spring 1996): 506-544.

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. NY: W.W. Norton and Co., 1971.

Spencer, Jon Michael. Black Hymnody: A Hymnological History of the African-American Church. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Spencer, Jon Michael. Protest and Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990.

Thurman, Howard. Deep River and the Negro Spritual Speaks of Life and Death. Richmond: Friends Press, 1990. Reprint of the 1975 edition.

Work, John W., ed. American Negro Songs and Sprituals. NY: Bonanza Books, 1940.