If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition

by Bernice Johnson Reagon

Book Overview

How do you survive leaving everything you know to try to reconstruct your life and future in a new way? What do you carry with you on your journey to the new place? Migration looms large as a theme in twentieth-century African American life. Bernice Johnson Reagon uses this theme as a centering structure for four essays that examine different genres of African American sacred music as they manifested themselves throughout the twentieth century and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803289839
• ISBN13: 9780803289833
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"