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May we forever stand : a history of the black national anthemEntry/Object ID
Library.1549Tags
Library JAMM as of June 4, 2023Description
xiv, 280 pages ; 25 cm..
May we forever stand : a history of the black national anthem by Imani Perry.
JAMM
The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately as an anthem that captured the story and the aspirations of Black Americans.
Contents: I'll make me a world: black formalism at the nadir -- The sound and fury of a renaissance: art and activism in the early twentieth century -- School bell song: "Lift every voice and sing" in the lives of children in the segregated South -- The bell tolls for thee: war, Americana, and the anthem -- Shall we overcome? Music and the movement -- All power, all poetry, to the people: from "Negro" to "black" national anthem -- A piece of the rock: post-civil rights losses, gains, and remnants.Collection
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Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954., Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938., Lift every voice and sing (Johnson, J. Rosamond)., African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism., Jacksonville Area Music Museum (JAMM).Publication Details
Author
Perry, Imani, 1972-
Perry, Imani, 1972-Publisher
University of North Carolina PressPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Chapel Hill
Chapel HillCall No.
ML 3561 .L54 P37 2018ISBN
9781469638607