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