An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 3 | EDIFICATION AND ECONOMICS: THE CAREER OF LOWELL MASON 79 about right.’ ‘And how many were there in the class?’ He sm ...

80 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR the training of music teachers. Moreover, after midcentury the name Mason st ...

CHAPTER 3 | EDIFICATION AND ECONOMICS: THE CAREER OF LOWELL MASON 81 Mason’s Spiritual Songs, however, were intended for congreg ...

82 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR harmony are coordinated to serve a highly personal set of words. In the seco ...

CHAPTER 3 | EDIFICATION AND ECONOMICS: THE CAREER OF LOWELL MASON 83 MASON’S RIVALS, COLLABORATORS, AND LEGACY Once Lowell Mason ...

84 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR the 1850s he realized that he had a choice to make. “A majority of the music ...

CHAPTER 3 | FURTHER LISTENING AND VIEWING 85 Miller, Kiri. Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism. Urbana: U ...

86 A s early as their fi rst arrival in Virginia in 1619, Africans were imported to the New World with the idea of making agricu ...

CHAPTER 4 | THE AFRICAN ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC 87 War. Black Americans preserved African cultural practices not only out of pre ...

88 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR Yet the historical record shows that, these obstacles notwithstanding, Afric ...

CHAPTER 4 | TRADITIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC MAKING 89 plantation on a holiday and saw slaves dancing to a unique kind of acco ...

90 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR Penitentiary at Parchman, interviewed in the 1940s by folklorist Alan Lomax, ...

CHAPTER 4 | REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN ANTEBELLUM BLACK MUSIC MAKING 91 date: unknown performers: John Davis and seven other singer ...

92 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR But the idea of blacks and whites worshiping together was opposed in many ot ...

CHAPTER 4 | REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN ANTEBELLUM BLACK MUSIC MAKING 93 spirit and sound of the music at an Election Day gathering ...

94 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR quaffi ng of “stimulating potions” that seemed to streng then “all their ner ...

95 SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Black Professional Musicians before the Civil War E ven before the end of the Civil ...

96 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR The drummer’s repeated cry of Hi-a-bomba, bomba, bomba, creating a “full har ...

CHAPTER 4 | REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN ANTEBELLUM BLACK MUSIC MAKING 97 The spread of the Christian faith seems to have done little ...

98 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR Orleans, acquired an ambiance unique in North America. Most of Louisiana’s b ...