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While discarding a number of sentimental Victorian horrors, the hymnal ecumenically includes several Roman Catholic canticles based on plain chant, along with hymns borrowed from Anglican, Lutheran and Presbyterian songbooks. In response to popular demand, in went Billy Graham's longtime favorite, How Great Thou Art. Out, at the request of Negro Methodist bishops, went Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, with its colonialist reference to "lesser breeds without the law"; the hymnal includes five Negro spirituals, carefully edited to exclude dialect wording. Reflecting the musical cross-fertilization inspired by church missionaries, there is one hymn (The Righteous Ones...
...CHANTS DES MAQUIS DU VIET-NAM (Le Chant du Monde). A far-out folk disk recorded under fire...
...Must Go." So uneasy are some moderates over the growing streak of undirected anger in the rights movement that the N.A.A.C.P. and the Urban League have given the Mississippi march limited and lukewarm support. Their reservations seemed well founded. At one point last week the marchers took up the chant: "Hey, hey, what do you say? White folks must go, must go!" Retorted Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. Field Director Charles Evers, whose brother Medgar was assassinated three years ago as a result of his civil rights activities: "If we are marching these roads for black supremacy, we're doomed...
...three, including S.N.C.C. Leader Stokely Carmichael, when they tried. Most militant of all civil rights leaders, Carmichael, free on bond, shouted his anger: "We want black power! Every courthouse in Mississippi ought to be burned down to get rid of the dirt." Marchers and local Negroes picked up the chant: "Black power! Black power!" Even then, officials of Greenwood remained silent, and eventually relented on most of the marchers' demands...
...sugary ineptitude of many Catholic hymns, church musicians have happily borrowed from Protestantism's musical heritage; of the 101 hymns in one new service book approved for use in U.S. Catholic churches, about two-thirds are of Protestant origin. Some Catholic musicologists are experimenting with Anglican plain chant to accompany the texts used at High Mass, while many Protestant churches have adopted the simple melodic settings of the Psalms composed by French Jesuit Joseph Gelineau. Men of both faiths are jointly exploring the liturgical use of new artistic forms such as sacred dance...