Gullah Spirituals

"Gullah Spirituals is a superb combination of scholarly analysis, personal experience, and intuition. Crawford interviews elderly performers of Gullah spirituals about their life experiences and their music. This creative approach leads to sensitive insights into Gullah culture and the spirituals that have sustained Gullah people for generations."—J. Herman Blake, University of California, Santa Cruz

"Gullah Spirituals is a comprehensive and well-written history of the development of a genre of Black spirituals. Eric Sean Crawford has done a superb and authentic job of updating the available information on this special song form. The reader will find this book to be engaging writing and a must have for his/her library!"—Willis C. Patterson, University of Michigan

"Gullah Spirituals is an incisive, sweeping examination of a powerful, musical tradition... an engaging, accessible work of scholarship that also goes to great lengths to generously shine a bright spotlight on the remarkable Gullah Geechee men and women (past and present) on St. Helena Island who have safeguarded this spiritual repertoire."—Heather L. Hodges, Former Executive Director, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor