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Creator: Persons, Simmons and Kennedy, R. Emmet (Robert Emmet), 1877-1941 Date: 1925 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Writer and collector Robert Emmett Kennedy (1877–1941) built a career reproducing the black music and storytelling traditions he encountered in his hometown of Gretna, Louisiana, for white audiences. A first-generation Irish American pianist and vocalist, Kennedy’s 1924 Black Cameos was his first... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Hall, J. H. (Jacob Henry), 1855-1941 Date: 1890~/1899~ Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Editor Jacob Henry Hall (1855–1941) used Songs of Home to advertise his skills as teacher and composer of sacred music. Published at the outset of his career, this small and inexpensive pamphlet features primarily Hall’s own compositions, ranging from musically conservative Sunday school choruses... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Acuff, J. W. (James W.), 1864–1937 and Evridge, W. D. (William D.), 1873–1932 Date: 1909 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The Waco-based Trio Music Company was a vital training ground for Texas gospel teachers and composers from 1895 to 1925, although it began losing contributors to Austin-based competitor Firm Foundations in the 1910s. Both publishing companies catered to the region’s Restorationist movement and it... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Root, George F. (George Frederick), 1820-1895 Date: 1870 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Publisher Root & Cady issued The Prize in response to a call for Sunday school materials to complement the weekly lesson topics announced in the interdenominational periodical National Sunday School Teacher. Root biographer P. H. Carder attributes the call to a young Dwight L. Moody, who later ro... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Robinson, K. C., Showalter, A. J. (Anthony Johnson), 1858-1924, Patton, J. D. (John Daniel), 1868-, Mosely, T. B., Beall, B. B. (Benjamin Burk), Morris, W. J., and Eagle, H. M. Date: 1915 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Gospel Glory is the 1915 joint offering of A. J. Showalter & Company of Dalton, Georgia, and its affiliates Showalter-Patton Company in Dallas, Texas, and Perry Brothers Music Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The volume’s composition is representative of the convention book publishing practices... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Work, Frederick J., 1879-1942 and Work, John W., 1873-1925 Date: 1907 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, a new dynasty of leadership was emerging over Fisk University's Jubilee Singers and its practice, dating to the 1870s, of publishing spirituals. In just over a decade (1902–1915), brothers Frederick J. Work (1879–1942) and John W. Work II (1873–1925) collecte... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Hauser, William, 1812-1880 Date: 1848 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The Hesperian Harp is one of two tunebooks compiled by William Hauser (1812–1880). One of eleven children born into an east Georgia yeoman farming family, Hauser attended local singing schools, was ordained as a Methodist preacher, and ascended into the professional class where he worked as physi... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Work, Frederick J., 1879-1942 Date: 1907 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, a new dynasty of leadership was emerging over Fisk University's Jubilee Singers and its practice, dating to the 1870s, of publishing spirituals. In just over a decade (1902–1915), brothers Frederick J. Work (1879–1942) and John W. Work II (1873–1925) collecte... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Faculty of the Eureka Normal School of Music Date: 1903 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The Eureka Publishing Company provided gospel music to the Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas region where the seven-shape notation system was widely adopted by the mid-1880s. This volume is an early version of the gospel annual. It retains rudiments from its oblong predecessors, rendering it suitable... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Beall, B. B. (Benjamin Burk) Date: 1907 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Editor Benjamin Burke Beall (1874–1945) began publishing gospel songbooks like the successful Joyful Lays series in 1900. When this compilation emerged in 1907, Beall likely envisioned it as the anchor for another series. However, no further issues were printed after Beall dissolved his Douglassv... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit