[African Americana]: [Music]: Campbell, Lucie E.:

Tramping - Wanna Be Ready - Walk Children [cover title].

[N.p. n.d.]. [7]pp. Original pictorial self wrappers with photographic portrait on front cover. First and last leaves detached, moderate wear and rubbing, light soiling, pencil annotations covering last blank page. Good. Item #4438

A rare music score for a "Negro spiritual" arranged by noted African-American composer Lucie E. Campbell. The song is "Tramping - Wanna Be Ready - Walk Children," and is arranged over six pages here. A wonderful portrait of Campbell appears on the front cover of the present work. The Memphis Music Hall of Fame describes Lucie Campbell as follows: "One of the most regarded composers of African American religious song, Lucie E. Campbell was a pioneering figure linking traditional hymnody to modern gospel composition and bridging gender and racial divides in the world of gospel music. Alongside such musical peers as Thomas A. Dorsey, Roberta Martin, and fellow Memphian Reverend W. Herbert Brewster, she helped to forge the black gospel sound of the first half of the twentieth century and further belongs to a small coterie of composers who have set lasting standards for religious music in the black Baptist church." Campbell was also notable as an activist for social justice. She headed the Negro Education Association, working for pay equity and other benefits for African American teachers. She also defied Jim Crow laws, refusing to give up her seat in a segregated streetcar in 1945, a decade before Rosa Parks. A detailed biography of her is included in the Tennessee Encyclopedia. OCLC records just a single copy of this work, at the University of Alabama.

Price: $350