B.Mus., Stanford University (1975).
M.A. in Folklore, University of California, Berkeley (1979), including studies with composer Olly Wilson and folklorist Alan Dundes.

WORKS:

SONGS

Advinzas
As Long As I Can Dance
Be Who You Are
Benediction
Boy’s Alright With Me
Come Home With Me
Deception
Don’t Throw That Candy Wrapper
Everything You Touch
Goodness Around
Hold On To Your Dream
     (recorded, see Discography)
I Can’t See Myself Without You
I’m Not Your Fool Anymore
If I Thought I Stood A Chance
Impatient For Luck
It Didn’t Take Long At All
Just An Ordinary Love
Keep A Little For Yourself
Lazy Day
Listen
Love Me Now
Millie
Money In The Bank
Music Pulls Me Through
Music Talks
My Dream
My Life In Pictures
No Time For Tears
Nothing Else Is San Francisco
Offertory
Old Tune For New Times
Ordinary Man
Peace In Your Heart
Plus Ca Change
Quincy Jones List
Raindance
Rich Man’s Son
Rock And Roll For Breakfast
Sing For Me
Small Talk
Snowflake
Somebody Heard My Cry
Someone Is Watching Over Me
Special Secret
Stop Before You Drop
Tell Me What I Wanna Hear
The Man Who Really Loves Me
The Outsider
The Spider
The World That I See
This Feeling
Too Busy
Too Something
Wendy’s Song
What Goes Round Comes Round
What Would I Do
When Do I Get To Have My Dreams
When I Finally Fall In Love
Wish
Wishful Thinking
With You
Women In Distress
Ya Gotta Know Somethin’ (‘Bout History)
     (recorded, see Discography)
You
You Can Make A Difference
You’re Always Welcome

UNCOMPLETED WORKS:
Various unfinished songs

WRITINGS:
The Grinning Black Mask: Afro-Americans & 19th Century Minstrelsy, University of California, Berkeley (1977).
The Hope of a Song: An Interpretation of the Meaning of Blues and Spirituals, dissertation thesis for M.A. in Folklore, University of California, Berkeley (1979).

DISCOGRAPHY:
Two Sides (independently produced cassette, 1984).
The World That I See (independently produced cassette, 1993).
Children of the Night (cassette) in association with the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention.
Ya Gotta Know Somethin’ ‘Bout History (Parts I & II); Hold On To Your Dream, performed by Kerrigan Black. (educational cassette, Heebie Jeebie Music, 1991).
The World That I See (posthumously released cassette, Heebie Jeebie Music, year?).

VIDEOGRAPHY:
Tryin’ To Get Home: A History of African American Song. Live performance written and performed by Kerrigan Black.
O Freedom (spiritual) - All Hid (children’s game song) - John Henry (folk ballad) - Nobody (minstrel song) - Something Doing (ragtime) - St. Louis Blues (blues) - It Don’t Mean A Thing (jazz) - Weary (Broadway) - In The Still Of The Night (early rock’n’roll) - How Sweet It Is - My Girl -The Tracks Of My Tears - Stop! In the Name of Love (Motown medley) - Home (Broadway) - Climbing Higher Mountains (Tryin’ to Get Home) (gospel).
(video, Heebie Jeebie Music, 1993)

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: African American Spirituals and the Crisis of AIDS. Written and performed by Kerrigan Black.
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? - Oh Freedom - Traveling Shoes - Soon I Will Be Done - This Little Light of Mine.
(video, Heebie Jeebie Music, 2000)

To Marlon with Love (1992), a tribute to Marlon Riggs which includes some clips of Kerrigan Black talking and singing one of his songs. (In archives at Stanford University).

JVC/Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of the Americas, Volume One: Ragtime Piano, "Something Doing," Kerrigan Black.

OTHER WORKS: Featured singer in the documentary Tongues United by Marlon Riggs.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Interviewed along with his father, Timuel D. Black, in The Great Divide by Studs Terkel. Cassettes of interviews in archive at Stanford University.
• Obituary, San Francisco Examiner, March 12, 1993.
• "Compassionate Music: Heebie Jeebie Music Lives On After the Death of Founder Kerrigan Black," by Chael Needle, Art & Understanding Magazine, January 2001.

OTHER INFORMATION:
The Kerrigan Black Show is a weekly half-hour television series of African-American music and commentary, begun in January 1992 on Bay Cablevision Network.
Kerrigan Black Scholarship Fund established at the Kozminski Academy on Chicago’s South Side for graduating eighth grade students.

PERFORMING RIGHTS AFFILIATION:
BMI

RESOURCES:
Heebee Jeebie Music (see Musical Executor)

MUSICAL EXECUTOR:
Larry Cross
Heebee Jeebie Music
2727 S. E. Alder Street
Portland, OR 97234
(503) 232-5623
www.heebiejeebiemusic.com
cross@heebiejeebiemusic.com

OTHER CONTACTS:
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