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Afro-American Religious Music: a Bibliography and a Catalogue of Gospel Music

In order to use this work, one must assess its two main parts individually, since they are only slightly connected. The first (pp. 1-60) is the bibliography, the second (pp. 61-183) the catalogue. The bibliography is not limited to Afro-American religious music as the title implies, but covers Afro-American culture in general. In the introduction (p. x), Jackson states her two goals for this bibliography: 'to demonstrate how an ethnomusicologist might examine gospel music within the context of New World Black religious music', and to provide 'a research guide, . . . a conceptual framework on which the study of Black religious music might rest'. Since the bibliography is neither prefaced nor annotated, one must infer the examination method and 'conceptual framework' from the bibliography's sectional organisation, which progresses from general to specific. The first three sections contain works relating only tangentially to gospel music: the first deals with non-musical Afro-Americana; the second, 'Ethnomusicology, Dance, and Folklore', is a catch-all of references, whose relation to Afro-American studies is not always clear, and the third, 'African and Afro-American Folksongs', deals with theory of both sacred and secular Afro-American music. Sections 4 and 5 list specifically religious-orientated writings, the former containing musical ones, the latter non-musical. Section 6 has works of all types musical, non-musical, religious, secular on Afro-Americans in the Caribbean Islands and the West Indies.