The Spirituals and the BluesInterpretations of the black spirituals. The debate about black music ; The souls of black folk ; Social and historical perspectives ; Religion in the spirituals -- The black spirituals and black experience -- God and Jesus Christ in the black spirituals. The meaning of God : God as liberator ; The meaning of God : Jesus Christ -- God and black suffering. Faith and suffering in the Bible ; Black faith and suffering ; The meaning of death ; The meaning of Satan ; The meaning of sin -- The meaning of heaven in the black spirituals. Heaven and black existence ; The transcendent present ; The transcendent future ; Judgment and the righteousness of God -- The blues : a secular spiritual. The rise of the blues ; Toward a definition of the blues ; The blues and black suffering ; The blues and sex ; The blues and social protest ; The blues and hope. |
