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A Perspective on SPIRITUALITY and the Musical Arts in the African American Tradition

This is an edited version of the keynote lecture delivered for the 2007 Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival and Festival Musica e Filosofia-Istituto Politea, Napoli at the Complesso monumentale di S. Lorenzo Maggiore-Naples.

My task today is to offer thoughts on the theme of Spirituality and the Arts in the African American Tradition. Specifically, I will discuss the musical arts as they have developed out of my culture. This development is traced through two primary and indigenous African American institutions-our churches and our schools. I want to link these remarks with the concert that is to follow, such that this lecture will present broad themes, while the concert that follows will ...

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