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Title: The Books of American Negro Spirituals: Including the Book of American Negro Spirituals and the Second Book of Negro Spirituals (Da Capo Paperback) by James Weldon Johnson, J.R. Johnson, Lawrence Brown, Rosamond Johnson ISBN: 0306800748 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding transcriptions of traditional music
Comment: This book stays true to aural tradition and offers outstanding, non-Westernized arrangements of the aural traditional music of African American spirituals.

The choice of using phonetic spellings for the lyrics means that the lyrics are heavy in the use of words like "dese", "dose", "Heab'n", etc. However, given the original publication being in the 1920's, and the author's comments in the introduction, it is apparent that the spellings are not the result of gross cultural insensitivity.

The respect for, and love of this fine music comes through in the author's comments. And the transcriptions retain the strong harmonic features that are often "arranged out" of collections of aural traditional music.

It is a fine collection, and an absolute steal at the price.

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