Historic Negro Spirituals as Biblical Interpretation

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvChrista Klingbeil Dixon,Kim R. Harris,Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Dr. Christa K. Dixon [1935 – 2003] grew up during the time of World War 2, where her father, a German Confessing Church pastor, regularly visited American POW camps, and young Christa heard African-American soldiers singing spirituals. Her fascination grew, but Dixon’s interests became quite focused on her interest in how the famous spirituals interpreted the Bible. In the mid-1960s, Dr. Dixon earned her PhD working on “Negro Spirituals” in Germany and published the text that formed from her years of research and long-lasting passion for the spirituals she heard during her visits to the prisoner camps with her father. A work of careful analysis and scholarship, Dixon’s study has since been out of print, but now newly translated and presented for an audience to rediscover. In John Lovell’s important 1972 monograph, Black Song: The Forge and Flame, he wrote, “…Perhaps the most intensive study of Biblical influences in the spiritual is found in Christa Dixon’s Wesen und Wandel geistlicher Volkslieder Negro Spirituals…her analyses are not only deeply intensive but quite creative…”. In this book, Drs. Kim R. Harris and Daniel L. Smith-Christopher provide not only a translation of the published German work, but also contribute two new essays to accompany this timeless study as both modern critique and long overdue appreciation.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-17
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor378
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781978713673
ÖversättareKim R. Harris

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Carrying On Dixon’s Program: Early African-American Interpretation of the Book of Daniel in the Lyrics of Spirituals as “Singing Exile”Dr. Daniel L. Smith-ChristopherWidening the Origin Stories: Islamic and Roman Catholic Presence and Contributions Reflected in Historic Negro SpiritualsDr. Kim R. Harris“Negro Spirituals”: The Interpretation of Scripture in a Religious Folk TraditionAuthor’s Foreword from the 1967 EditionTranslator’s IntroductionIntroducing My Mother, Rev. Dr. Christa Klingbeil DixonIntroduction and Literature ReviewChapter 1: Laying the Groundwork for Understanding the Negro SpiritualsChapter 2: On the Combining of Biblical PassagesChapter 3: On the Combination of Biblical StatementsChapter 4: On Modernizing and “Re-Contextualizing” Biblical StatementsChapter 5: On the Structuring of Biblical StatementsChapter 6: SummarySecond Part: The Spiritual TextsLyrics Section

The often-overlooked little 1976 classic Negro Spirituals: From Bible to Folksong by German scholar Christa Klingbeil Dixon gets new life in this translation editionof her complete dissertation and book. Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, a biblical scholar, and Kim R. Harris, a scholar of African American religious thought and practice with a rich background in liturgy, both of Loyola Marymount University join to frame this stimulating volume.