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- Copyright
- © Copyright 1987 JBSM/Jon Michael Spencer
- ISSN
- 1043-9455
- eISSN
- 2640-9879
- DOI
- 10.1215/10439455-1.2.47
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
From The Black Sacred Music Archive The Black Music Archive was founded in 1984 by Jon Michael Spencer with a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Presently located at Duke University, its aim has been to assemble for the use of faculty, students, and visiting researchers the published and unpublished music of black composers, as well as non-black composers writing in black musical idioms. Always in search of private donations to enhance its historic value, the archive now holds approximately 650 pi~ces of music, including hymnals, books, pamphlets, and programs, in addition to the substantial John Howard ton Smith and Kenneth Brown Billups Papers. Presently named The Black Sacred Music Archive, the emphasis of the collection is the sacred music of black religion. Along with spirituals, hymns, gospel songs, civil rights songs, anthems, cantatas, oratorios, and black de nominational hymnals, are assembled such culturally relevant genre as abo litionist song and hymnody. What follows is a list of new acquisitions. Collections John Howardton Smith (1880-1977) Papers. Among the collectanea of this prolific hymnist are over 250 original gospel song texts. Most of the lyrics appear in both handwritten and typed manuscript, as well as in Smith's privately published
Journal
Black Sacred Music – Duke University Press
Published: Sep 1, 1987