American Negro spirituals

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American Negro spirituals: see spiritual spiritual, a religious folk song of American origin, particularly associated with African-American Protestants of the southern United States. The African-American spiritual, characterized by syncopation, polyrhythmic structure, and the pentatonic scale of five whole
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No references found			Johnson names Singing Johnson in his preface to The Book of American Negro Spirituals (22-23). Chronopolitics and race, rag-time and symphonic time in The ... by Barnhart, Bruce / African American Review His own genius was to substitute the Lutheran chorales of old with massively harmonised American Negro spirituals, including Go Down Moses, used here to express anger at inhumanity. Preview: MICHAEL TIPPETT TRIBUTE Philharmonic Hall by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) Working with Alice Parker, he created the now-enshrined arrangements of American Negro spirituals and Appalachian folk songs. Music as sacrament by Burris, Keith C. / Commonweal			American jade American Kennel Club American Labor Party American Landrace swine American Lands Alliance American League American Legion American Legion & Peoples State Forests American Library Association American linden American lion American literature American Littoral Society American Mansard style American Medical Association American melting point American Memorial Park American method of application American Monitor Lizard American Motors Corp. American mucocutaneous leishmaniasis American Museum of Natural History American Muslim Mission American National Standard American National Standards Institute American Negro spirituals American oriental carpeting American Park & Recreation Society American Party American pasque flower American pennyroyal oil American Philosophical Society American Protective Association American Public Information on the Environment American Race American Red Cross American Relief Administration American Renaissance American Renaissance Revival American Revolution American Rivers American Rocket Society American run American Rundbogenstil American Saddlebred American saddlebred horse American Samoa American Samoa, The National Park of American Scene, The American Shore & Beach Preservation Association American Society for Testing and Materials			American National Theatre and Academy American National Trading Division American National Unimotorcyclists Society American Nationalist Union American Natural Bodybuilding Conference American Natural Gas Corporation American Natural History Museum American Natural Hygiene Society American Natural Selection League American Natural Soda Ash Corporation American Naturalism American Naturalism American Nature Study Society American Naturopathic and Holistic Association American Naturopathic Certification Board American Naturopathic Medical Association American Naturopathic Medical Certification and Accreditation Board American Navy American Navy American Nazi Party American Near East Refugee Aid American Near East Relief Agency American Needlepoint Guild, Inc. American Negro Academy American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa American Negro Playwright Theatre American Negro spirituals American Neoconservatism American Neoconservatism American Nephrology Nurses' Association American Nephrology Nurses' Association American Nephrology Nurses' Association American Nephrology Nurses' Association American Netherland Dwarf Rabbit Club American Netherlands Club of Rotterdam American Network Communications American Network of Community Options & Resources American Networks American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society American Neurological Association American Neuropsychiatric Association American Neurotology Society American New England American New England American News Company American News Project American News Women's Club American Newspaper Guild American Newspaper Publishers Association American Nicaraguan Foundation American Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Association American Night Writers Association American Nightmare American Nihilist Underground Society American Nineteenth Century History American Nitrox Divers International

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