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let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote2013-06-04 10:54 am
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Does anybody know where I might find an MP3 of "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" that sounds like a spiritual, not Caribbean or Latin or sixties pop or children's church choir? The first several pages of an Amazon MP3 search are...unhelpful.

I could have sworn "Amazing Grace" was a spiritual. Well, yes, now it is, but Wiki says it wasn't written by a slave, it was written by a former slave-trader. I am consequently hesitant about using it. Should I be?
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[identity profile] dawn-bat.livejournal.com 2013-06-04 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Re: "Amazing Grace", I guess it depends what symbolism you want it for. It would still work for something like The Repentant Sinner. And if it's a spiritual nowadays, well, cultural meanings are always shifting, and cultures and sub-cultures are forever borrowing things from each other, and how much of a purist would you like to be?
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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2013-06-04 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)

Good points. I'll consider. Thanks!

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[personal profile] malkingrey 2013-06-04 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Strictly speaking, "Amazing Grace" isn't a spiritual, but part of the shape-note, or Sacred Harp, hymn-singing tradition, which was (and still is, I suppose) mostly a white Protestant thing. You can hear a group singing it in the old four-part style here, on YouTube.
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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2013-06-04 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)

nods Thanks

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[personal profile] lonespark 2013-06-04 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that.
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[personal profile] lonespark 2013-06-04 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I found a Marion Williams version. Even if it doesn't fit the bill, listen to a bunch of her stuff.
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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2013-06-04 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)

Awesome. Thanks. ETA now that I'm home from work and can Youtube: Yay, that's just what I was looking for!

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[personal profile] lonespark 2013-06-04 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Also I have discovered a Mahalia Jackson recording of "I Come to the Garden Alone," and, um, whoa.
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[personal profile] lonespark 2013-06-04 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
And "Steal Away" with Nat King Cole...
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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2013-06-04 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)

Ooh.

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