The Spirituals and the Blues

Cone explores two classic aspects of African-American culture--the spirituals and the blues. He tells the captivating story of how slaves and the children of slaves used this music to affirm their essential humanity in the face of oppression. The blues are shown to be a "this-worldly" expression of cultural and political rebellion. The spirituals tell about the "attempt to carve out a significant existence in a very trying situation".

Preface

ix

Introduction

1

(8)

Interpretations of the Black Spirituals

9

(11)

The Debate about Black Music

9

(3)

The Souls of Black Folk

12

(1)

Social and Historical Perspectives

13

(3)

Religion in the Spirituals

16

(4)

The Black Spirituals and Black Experience

20

(12)

God and Jesus Christ in the Black Spirituals

32

(21)

The Meaning of God: God as Liberator

32

(11)

The Meaning of God: Jesus Christ

43

(10)

God and Black Suffering

53

(25)

Faith and Suffering in the Bible

54

(3)

Black Faith and Suffering

57

(10)

The Meaning of Death

67

(4)

The Meaning of Satan

71

(3)

The Meaning of Sin

74

(4)

The Meaning of Heaven in the Black Spirituals

78

(19)

Heaven and Black Existence

79

(4)

The Transcendent Present

83

(4)

The Transcendent Future

87

(5)

Judgment and the Righteousness of God

92

(5)

The Blues: A Secular Spiritual

97

(32)

The Rise of the Blues

98

(4)

Toward a Definition of the Blues

102

(8)

The Blues and Black Suffering

110

(4)

The Blues and Sex

114

(4)

The Blues and Social Protest

118

(4)

The Blues and Hope

122

(7)

A Concluding Reflection

129

(2)

Notes

131

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