"Truths that Liberate the soul": Eva Jessye and the politics of religious performance

Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 222-244

  Weisenfeld, Judith ^a  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

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1. Eva A. Jessye, My Spirituals (New York: Robbins-Engel, 1927)
2. Donald Fisher Black, "The Life and Work of Eva Jessye and Her Contributions to American Music" (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1986), 18-19.
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9. Anderson, Deep River, 114.
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11. Los Angeles Times, December 6, 2002
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34. Helen Walker-Hill, From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music (Westport, CT Greenwood, 2002), 18.
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36. Wilson, "Eva Jessye: Afro-American Choral Director," 18-20.
37. New York Times, October 11, 1925.
38. New York Times, February 28, 1926; March 21, 1926
39. New York Times, July 14, 1929
40. Robert T. Kerlin, Negro Poets and Their Poems (Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1923)
41. New York Times, April 10, 1927; June 4, 1927.
42. Wilson, "Eva Jessye: Afro-American Choral Director," 172-73.
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47. New York Times, June 4, 1927
48. Pittsburgh Courier, February 21, 1931.
49. J. Terry Todd, "New York, the New Babylon? Fundamentalism and the Modern City in Reverend Straton's Jazz Age Crusade," in Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture, ed. John M. Giggie and Diane H. Winston (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002)
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51. New York Times, December 6, 1914; April 26, 1919
52. Jessye, My Spirituals, 4.
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55. New York Times, January 17, 1926.
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57. Hurston, "Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals," 224.
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61. Alain Locke, The Negro and His Music (Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968), 22-23.
62. Hurston, "Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals," 223.
63. Eva Jessye Choir, Town Hall Program, October 28, 1948.
64. Souvenir Program for Eva Jessye's American Concert Ensemble, March 17, 1957.
65. Detroit News, January 12, 1939
66. Black, "The Life and Work of Eva Jessye," 41.
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68. John Houseman, Run-Through: A Memoir (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972), 105
69. Wilson, "Eva Jessye: Afro-American Choral Director," 33-34.
70. Percy Goetschius to Eva Jessye, August 25, 1926; April 16, 1927
71. Eugene Ormandy to Eva Jessye, April 10, 1927
72. Leopold Stokowski to Eva Jessye, May 13, 1942; f. 11
73. Black, "The Life and Work of Eva Jessye," 135-37
74. New York Times, April 12, 1942.
75. Wayne D. Shirley, "William Grant Still's Choral Ballad And They Lynched Him on a Tree," American Music, 12, no. 4 (Winter 1994): 425-61.
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77. New York Times, October 29, 1948.
78. The Chronicle of Job (The Story of the Most Patient Man in Biblical History), September 30, 1979
79. Jessye, The Chronicle of Job, 5.
80. "Simon, The Fisherman," For Mixed Voices (As Sung by the Eva Jessye Choir), transcribed by Eva Jessye (Summy-Birchard Co., 1947)
81. Jessye, The Chronicle of Job, 14.
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84. Chicago Defender, April 21, 1933.
85. Eva Jessye, The Story of Baltazar, The Black Magus (1932), f. 182
86. The Story of the Black Wise Man (1959), f. 1831
87. Follow the Star of Bethlehem (n.d.), f. 172
88. "The Story of the Black Wise Man," December 20, 1959
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90. New York Times, April 4, 1932
91. Pittsburgh Courier, April 23, 1932.
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96. Jessye, Paradise Lost, 7
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98. Jessye, Paradise Lost, 16
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103. Robert T. Kerlin, Negro Poets and Their Poems (Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1923), 69.
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