Old Ship of Zion
Title | Old Ship of Zion PDF eBook |
Author | the late Walter F. Pitts |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1996-10-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 019535480X |
This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year period in the field, Pitts played the piano at and recorded numerous worship services in black Baptist churches throughout rural Texas. His historical comparisons and linguistic analyses of this material uncover striking parallels between "Afro-Baptist" services and the religious rituals of Western and Central Africa, as well as other African-derived rituals in the United States Sea Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Pitts demonstrates that African and African-American worship share an underlying binary ritual frame: the somber melancholy of the first frame and the high emotion of the second frame. Pitts's revealing perspective on this often misunderstood aspect of African-American religion provides an investigative model for the study of diaspora cultural practices and the residual influence of their African sources.
American Negro Folk-songs
Title | American Negro Folk-songs PDF eBook |
Author | Newman Ivey White |
Publisher | |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Music |
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While his father works in the city over the winter, a young boy thinks of some good times they've shared and looks forward to his return to their South African home in the spring.
De old ship ob Zion
Title | De old ship ob Zion PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Lucas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1881 |
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Folk Songs of the Catskills
Title | Folk Songs of the Catskills PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Cazden |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 672 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780873955805 |
Traditional songs from the Catskill area of New York State are accompanied by detailed discusssions of their roots, development, musical structure, and subject matter
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Title | Lippincott's Monthly Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 1868 |
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The Old Ship of Zion
Title | The Old Ship of Zion PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | African Americans |
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Walk on and The old ship of Zion
Title | Walk on and The old ship of Zion PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | |
Release | 2018 |
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