Amazing Grace
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Web Resources
- Amazing Grace (the movie)
http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/ - “Eternal Songs” from American Roots Music on PBS (focuses on “Amazing Grace”)
http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_es_religious.html - “Amazing Grace” –Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace - Cyberhymnal
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/ - Sacred Harp Singing
http://fasola.org/ - Amazing Grace: Some Early Tunes
http://www.markrhoads.com/amazingsite/index.htm
Selected Bibliography
Aitken, Jonathan. John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2007.
Barr, Steven C. The Almost Complete 78 rpm Record Dating Guide(II). Huntington Beach, CA: Yesterday Once Again, 1992, c1979.
Bohrer, Dick. John Newton, Letters of a Slave Trader. Chicago : Moody Press, c1983.
Brooks, Tim, and Brian Rust. The Columbia Master Book Discography, 4 vols. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
[Cecil, Richard]. The Life of John Newton. Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1831.
Demaray, Donald E. The Innovation of John Newton (1725-1807): Synergism of Word and Music in Eighteenth Century Evangelism. Lewiston, NY:. Mellen Press, c1988.
Dixon, Robert M.W., John Godrich, and Howard Rye. Blues & Gospel Records, 1890-1943, 4th ed. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Edwards, Brian H. Through Many Dangers. Welwyn: Evangelical Press, 1975.
Hindmarsh, D. Bruce. John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition: Between the Conversions of Wesley and Wilberforce. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Laird, Ross. Brunswick Records: A Discography of Recordings, 1916-1931, 4 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Laird, Ross, and Brian Rust. Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
Library of Congress. Check-list of Recorded Songs in the English Language in the Archive of American Folk Song to July, 1940. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1942.
Martin, Bernard. John Newton: A Biography. London: Heinemann, 1950.
Meade, Guthrie T., Jr. with Dick Spottswood and Douglas S. Meade. Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music. Chapel Hill, NC: Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries in Association with the John Edwards Memorial Forum, c2002.
Newton, John. An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of ... London: J. Johnson, 1775.
Newton, John. The Life of John Newton, Once a Sailor, Afterwards Captain of a Slave Ship, and Subsequently Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, London. New York: printed for the American Tract Society by Pudney, Hooker & Russell, 1846.
Patterson, Beverly Bush. The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
Public Affairs Television. Amazing Grace [television program]. Produced and directed by Elena Mannes; executive producers, Judith Davidson Moyers, Bill Moyers. United States: PBS, 1990.
Ruppli, Michel. The Decca Labels: A Discography, 6 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Russell, Tony. Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Rust, Brian. The Victor Master Book, Volume 2 (1925-1936). Stanhope, NJ: W. C. Allen, 1970.
Sandberg, Anne. John Newton: Author of Amazing Grace. Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour and Co., c1996.
Schinhan, Jan Philip, ed. “In the Pines,” In The Music of the Folk Songs, Edited by Jan Philip Schinhan, Vol. 5 of The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, edited by Newman Ivey White, et al. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1962, 201-3.
Strom, Kay Marshall. John Newton, the Angry Sailor. Chicago: Moody Press, c1984.
Swift, Catherine M. John Newton. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, [1994], c1991.
Turner, Steve. Amazing Grace: The Story of America’s Most Beloved Song. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.