Resources

Speeches

King, Martin Luther Jnr. I have a dream. New York, 1997.

Music

Audio-cassettes

Palisca, Claude V, ed.. Norton Anthology of Western Music Collection. Vol 1, 2. cds 1-8. New York, 1996.

The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz. Volumes 1-6. Selected and annotated by Martin Williams

Songs
The following list of songs is still available through the publishers.

Good News About The Chariot. Two-Part, African-American spiritual, arranged by Patsy Ford Simms. BriLee Music Publishers. Moderately Difficult.

He's Callin' My Name. SATB Spiritual arranged by Patsy Ford Simms. Alfred Publishers. Moderate/Difficult

Hush! Somebody's Callin' My Name. SAB (soprano, alto and bass). Traditional Spiritual arranged by Brazeal W. Dennard. Shawnee Press, Inc. Moderate/ Difficult.

I Feel The Spirit. SATB arranged by Don Besig, Alfred Publishers. Moderate/ difficult.

My Lord, What A Morning. Unison/Two Part. African-American spiritual arranged by Ruth Elaine Schram, Brilee Music Publishers. Moderately difficult.

Music Reference Books

Jackson, Rick. Encyclopedia of rock, pop and folk music. Kingston, 1994.

Feather, Leonard. The encyclopedia of jazz. New York, 1960.

Grout, D and Palisca, Claude V. A History of Western Music - 5th edition. New York, 1988.

Hughes, Langston. A first book of jazz. New Jersey, 1995.

Jones, Leroi. (Amiri Baraka). Blues People: negro music in White America. New York, 1963.

Kirchner, Bill ed. The Oxford Companion to Jazz. New York, 2000.

Machlis, Joseph. The Enjoyment of Music: an introduction to perceptive listening. New York, 1963.

Oliver, Paul. The story of the blues. London, 1969.

Palisca, Claude V, ed. Norton Anthology of Western Music Collection: classic to modern. Vol 1, 2. cds 1-8. New York, 1996.

McDaris, Wendy ed. Visualizing the blues: images of the American South 1862-1999. Memphis, 2000.

Vigna, Guiseppe. Jazz and its history: Masters of Music Series. New York, 1999.

Volkov, Solomon. Testimony: the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich. London, 1979.

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