Lineage Lists

Songbooks on Negro Spirituals & Gospel Music from the Antebellum Period to Mid 20th Century

  1. The Books of American Negro Spirituals by James Weldon Johnson
  2. African American Heritage Hymnal: 575 Hymns, Spirituals, and Gospel Songs by Delores Carpenter
  3. Slave Songs of the United States: The Classic 1867 Anthology by William Francis Allen
  4. Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. by Harold Courlander
  5. Beams of Heaven: Hymns of Charles Albert Tindley by Charles Albert Tindley
  6. My Favorite Spirituals: 30 Songs for Voice and Piano by Roland Hayes
  7. Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit: 101 Best-Loved Psalms, Gospel Hymns & Spiritual Songs of the African-American Church by Gwendolin Sims Warren
  8. Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of Faith (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs) by Nicole Beaulieu Herder
  9. Spirits That Dwell in Deep Woods: The Prayer and Praise Hymns of the Black Religious Experience by Wyatt Tee Walker
  10. Calhoun Plantation Songs (Reprint of 1907 Edition) by Emily Hallowell
  11. Old Plantation Hymns: A Collection of Hitherto Unpublished Melodies of the Slave and the Freedman, With Historical and Descriptive Notes by William Eleazar Barton
  12. 25 Spirituals Arranged by Harry T. Burleigh With companion recordings of Piano Accompaniments Low Voice, Book/Audio Online by Harry T. Burleigh
  13. Negro Slave Songs in the United States (Volume 0) by Miles Mark Fisher