Conjuring Freedom: MUSIC AND MASCULINITY IN THE CIVIL WAR’S “GOSPEL ARMY”
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CONTENTS
PRELUDE
INTRODUCTION
SLAVE SONGS EVIDENCED BOTH AFRICAN RETENTIONS AND NEW WORLD INVENTIONS
CHAPTER 1: A Strange Fulfillment of Dreams: Racial Fetish and Fantasy in Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Army Life in a Black Regiment
PORT ROYAL SOUND AND THE PORT ROYAL EXPERIMENT
1. Personal experience and testimony authorize Orientalism as a particular science of knowledge
2. The “resident” always writes from an intentional consciousness of being set apart from the environment, which serves a professional task
3. The trip to the Orient is the “fulfillment of some deeply felt and urgent project.
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 2: The Collective Will to Conjure: Religion, Ring Shout, and Spiritual Militancy in a Black Regiment
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
De Nyew Heaben and de Nyew Wol
JESUS AND MARY IN THE “GOSPEL ARMY”
CHAPTER 3: One More Valiant Soldier: Music and Masculinity in a Black Regiment
SINGING AND SEEING
BLACK COMMUNAL CONSERVATORIES
CHAPTER 4: Moon Rise: Songs of Loss, Lament, and Liberation in a Black Regiment
CHAPTER 5: Military “Glory” or Racial Horror
POSTLUDE: My Army Cross Over
RACE, CULTURE, AND THE CONUNDRUMS OF AMERICAN FREEDOM
WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN: HEALERS, CONJURERS, AND SPIRITUAL MILITANCY
THE SONGS OF BLACK FOLK: BLACK COMMUNAL CONSERVATORIES
SPECTERS OF THE 1ST SOUTH
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF SONGS
GENERAL INDEX
BLACK PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM