John Rosamond Johnson
11 August 1873—11 November 1954
Featured Hymns:
see also:
Every time I feel the Spirit
Where shall I be when the first trumpet sounds?
Published Collections:
The Book of American Negro Spirituals (editor, 1925): WorldCat
The Second Book of Negro Spirituals (editor, 1926): WorldCat
Utica Jubilee Singers Spirituals (1930): WorldCat
Shout Songs (1936)
Rolling Along in Song: a Chronological Survey of American Negro Music (1937): WorldCat
Sixteen New Negro Spirituals (1939): WorldCat
The Album of Negro Spirituals (1940): WorldCat
Editions:
The Songs of Cole and Johnson Brothers (NY: Edward B. Marks, 2015): WorldCat
Manuscripts:
J. Rosamond Johnson Papers, Yale University:
https://archives.yale.edu/
J. Rosamond Johnson portrait collection, New York Public Library, Schomburg Center:
http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b11487393~S1
Life & Works:
James Weldon Johnson, Along This Way (NY: Viking Press, 1933): WorldCat
Thomas Yenser, Who’s Who in Colored America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America, 1941 to 1944 (Brooklyn: Yenser 1942): WorldCat
J. Lovell Jr., “J. Rosamond Johnson,” Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Rayford Logan & Michael R. Winston, eds. (New York, 1982): WorldCat
Eileen Southern, “John Rosamond Johnson,” Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982), pp. 210–211.
Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans: A History (New York, 1971; 3rd Edition, 1997): WorldCat
K. Sotiropoulos, Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2006): WorldCat
Related Links:
Sandra Jean Graham, “John Rosamond Johnson,” Grove Music Online:
https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2256944
University of California Santa Barbara, Cylinder Audio Archive:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php
Lia C. Gerken, “John Rosamond Johnson,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology:
http://www.hymnology.co.uk/j/john-rosamond-johnson