Further Study
For a more in-depth exploration of the topics touched on briefly in this historical overview, please visit the following sections of the current website:

Survival and Resilience

Evolving Contexts

Freedom and Equality

Literature

Performing Arts

Present and the Future

 

For suggestions on books and recordings, see The Spirituals Project educational resources notes.

 

Additional resources for further study:

Paris based "Official Site of Negro Spirituals"

First issue of "The Negro Spiritual," published by The Friends of Negro Spirituals, San Francisco

Detroit News story on keeping the spirituals alive today

Hansonia Caldwell, African American Music: Spirituals (third edition. This comprehensive workbook and guide to the history of the spirituals was published in 2003 by Ikoro Communications, Inc. in Culver City, California, and is available directly from the publisher:

Ikoro Communications, Inc.
P.O. Box 5065
Culver City, CA 90231-5056
Phone 310-649-0372
E-mail: IKOROBOOK@worldnet.att.net