Dancing the Ring Shout! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dancing the Ring Shout! write by Kim L. Siegelson. This book was released on 2003-09. Dancing the Ring Shout! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This picture book honors the longstanding ring shout tradition from West Africa and the American South, depicting a thankful young boy learning to rejoice with all his heart. Full color.
Ring Shout, Wheel About
Ring Shout, Wheel About - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ring Shout, Wheel About write by Katrina Dyonne Thompson. This book was released on 2014-01-30. Ring Shout, Wheel About available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical performance was used by white Europeans and Americans to justify enslavement, perpetuate the existing racial hierarchy, and mask the brutality of the domestic slave trade. Whether on slave ships, at the auction block, or on plantations, whites often used coerced performances to oppress and demean the enslaved. As Thompson shows, however, blacks' "backstage" use of musical performance often served quite a different purpose. Through creolization and other means, enslaved people preserved some native musical and dance traditions and invented or adopted new traditions that built community and even aided rebellion. Thompson shows how these traditions evolved into nineteenth-century minstrelsy and, ultimately, raises the question of whether today's mass media performances and depictions of African Americans are so very far removed from their troublesome roots.
Shout Because You're Free
Shout Because You're Free - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shout Because You're Free write by . This book was released on 2013-10-01. Shout Because You're Free available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and percussion survives today in the Bolton Community of McIntosh County, Georgia. Incorporating oral history, first-person accounts, musical transcriptions, photographs, and drawings, Shout Because You're Free documents a group of performers known as the McIntosh County Shouters. Derived from African practices, the ring shout combines call-and-response singing, the percussion of a stick or broom on a wood floor, and hand-clapping and foot-tapping. First described in depth by outside observers on the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia during the Civil War, the ring shout was presumed to have died out in active practice until 1980, when the shouters in the Bolton community first came to the public's attention. Shout Because You're Free is the result of sixteen years of research and fieldwork by Art and Margo Rosenbaum, authors of Folk Visions and Voices. The book includes descriptions of present-day community shouts, a chapter on the history of the shout's African origins, the recollections of early outside observers, and later folklorists' comments. In addition, the tunes and texts of twenty-five shout songs performed by the McIntosh County Shouters are transcribed by ethnomusicologist Johann S. Buis.Shout Because You're Free is a fascinating look at a unique living tradition that demonstrates ties to Africa, slavery, and Emancipation while interweaving these influences with worship and oneness with the spirit.
Dancing Wisdom
Dancing Wisdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dancing Wisdom write by Yvonne Daniel. This book was released on 2005. Dancing Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performances
Mojo Workin'
Mojo Workin' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mojo Workin' write by Katrina Hazzard-Donald. This book was released on 2012-12-30. Mojo Workin' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bold reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practice Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence from African traditions to religious practices in the Americas. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the nineteenth century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. The spread came about through the mechanism of the "African Religion Complex," eight distinct cultural characteristics familiar to all the African ethnic groups in the United States. The first interdisciplinary examination to incorporate a full glossary of Hoodoo culture, Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System lays out the movement of Hoodoo against a series of watershed changes in the American cultural landscape. Hazzard-Donald examines Hoodoo material culture, particularly the "High John the Conquer" root, which practitioners employ for a variety of spiritual uses. She also examines other facets of Hoodoo, including rituals of divination such as the "walking boy" and the "Ring Shout," a sacred dance of Hoodoo tradition that bears its corollaries today in the American Baptist churches. Throughout, Hazzard-Donald distinguishes between "Old tradition Black Belt Hoodoo" and commercially marketed forms that have been controlled, modified, and often fabricated by outsiders; this study focuses on the hidden system operating almost exclusively among African Americans in the Black spiritual underground.
