Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I: "They Sang a Song of Triumph
1. "Go Sound the Jubilee": Slave Narratives, William Wells Brown & Martin Delany
2. "Uplifting the Race", Pauline E. Hopkins & Paul Laurence Dunbar
Part II: "Depths to Which Mere Sound Had No Business to Go"
3. "The Most Treasured Heritage of the American Negro", James Weldon Johnson
4. "Their Joy Runs, Bang! Into Ecstasy", Langston Hughes, Claude McKay & Zora Neale Hurston
Part III: "The Only True History of the Times"
5. "Not Many People Ever Really Hear It", Richard Wright, Ann Petry & James Baldwin
6. "The Brother Does Not [Does] Sing, Ralph Ellison
Part IV: "The Length of the Music Was the Only Form"
7. "There Must be Some People Who Lived for Music", Margaret Walker & William Melvin Kelley
8. "The Sound Baked Inside Their Heads", Amiri Baraka & Henry Dumas
Coda: "What Good is a Liturgy Without a Text?"
Selected Bibliography
Selected Discography
Index
Biography
Robert H. Cataliotti
