May we forever stand : a history of the black national anthem /

Perry, Imani, 1972-

May we forever stand : a history of the black national anthem / Imani Perry. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture .

Includes bibliographies and index.

I'll make me a world: black formalism at the nadir -- The sound and fury of a renaissance: art and activism in the early twentieth century -- School bell song: "Lift every voice and sing" in the lives of children in the segregated South -- The bell tolls for thee: war, Americana, and the anthem -- Shall we overcome? music and the movement -- All power, all poetry, to the people: from "Negro" to "black" national anthem -- A piece of the rock: post-civil rights losses, gains, and remnants.



9781469638614 9781469638621


Johnson, J. Rosamond 1873-1954 --


African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
Anthems--History and criticism.--United States
African Americans--History.--United States


Electronic Books.

ML3561 / .M399 2018