James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871—26 June 1938
James Weldon Johnson, photo by Doris Ulmann, ca. 1925, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (NPG.79.114).
Featured Hymns:
see also:
Where shall I be when the first trumpet sounds?
Published Works:
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912): PDF
Goyescas: or, the Rival Lovers (translator, 1915): WorldCat
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917): PDF
The Book of American Negro Poetry (editor, 1922): PDF
The Book of American Negro Spirituals (editor, 1925): WorldCat
The Second Book of Negro Spirituals (editor, 1926): WorldCat
God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927): WorldCat
Native African Races and Culture (1927): WorldCat
Black Manhattan (1930): WorldCat
Saint Peter Relates an Incident: Selected Poems (1930): WorldCat
Along This Way (1933): WorldCat
Negro Americans,What Now? (1934): Archive.org
Note: List does not include essays in periodicals or musical compositions.
Editions:
Sondra K. Wilson, The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1995): WorldCat
William L. Andrews, Writings (NY: The Library of America): WorldCat
Sondra K. Wilson, Complete Poems (Paw Prints, 2008): WorldCat
Rudolph Byrd, The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Random House, 2011): WorldCat
The Songs of Cole and Johnson Brothers (NY: Edward B. Marks, 2015): WorldCat
Manuscripts:
James Weldon Johnson Collection, Yale University:
https://jwj.yale.edu/
Life & Works:
Wendell P. Whalum, “James Weldon Johnson’s Theories and Performance Practices of Afro-American Folksong,” Phylon, vol. 32, no. 4 (1971), pp. 383–395: JSTOR
Eugene Levy, James Weldon Johnson: Black Leader, Black Voice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973): WorldCat
Eileen Southern, “James Weldon Johnson,” Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982), p. 210.
Robert E. Fleming, James Weldon Johnson (Boston: Twayne, 1987): WorldCat
Kenneth M. Price & Lawrence J. Oliver, Critical Essays on James Weldon Johnson (New York: G. K. Hall, 1997): WorldCat
Noelle Morrissette. James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013): WorldCat
Related Links:
James Weldon Johnson, Poetry Foundation:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-weldon-johnson
James Weldon Johnson, Academy of American Poets:
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/james-weldon-johnson
James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, Emory University:
http://jamesweldonjohnson.emory.edu/
Eugene Levy, “James Weldon Johnson,” American National Biography:
https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1802865
Edward A. Berlin, “James Weldon Johnson,” Grove Music Online:
https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2083946