Spencer, Jon Michael
SPENCER, Jon Michael
SPENCER, Jon Michael. American. Genres: Music, Race relations. Career: Authority on African-American hymnal music and music history. Duke University Divinity School, Durham, NC, faculty member; Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, faculty member; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, faculty member; University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, faculty member. Publications: As the Black School Sings: Black Music Collections at Black Universities and Colleges with a Union List of Book Holdings, 1987; Sacred Symphony: The Chanted Sermon of the Black Preacher, 1987; Protest and Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion, 1990; Theological Music: Introduction to Theomusicology, 1991; Black Hymnody: A Hymnological History of the African-American Church, 1992; Blues and Evil, 1993; The Rhythms of Black Folk: Race, Religion, and Pan-Africanism, 1995; Sing a New Song: Liberating Black Hymnody, 1995; Researching Black Music, 1996; Self- Made and Blues-Rich, 1996; The New Negroes and Their Music: The Success of the Harlem Renaissance, 1997; The New Colored People: The Mixed- Race Movement in America, 1997. Contributor to books and periodicals. Address: c/o Africa World Press, PO Box 1892, Trenton, NJ 08607-1892, U.S.A.