10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RING-SHOUT»
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Tap Roots: The Early History of Tap Dancing
The Ring Shout As African-Americans converted to Christianity, they borrowed
elements from both African ritual and white Protestant traditions, one of which
included the belief that secular dancing was sinful.16 However, because
movement ...
2
Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of ...
The second edition, which includes a Foreword by historian John Stauffer, will reintroduce Stuckey's masterpiece to a wider audience.
3
The Books of American Negro Spirituals: Two Volumes in One
This term "shout songs" has no reference to the loud, jubilant Spirituals, which
are often so termed by writers on Negro music; it has reference to the songs or,
better, the chants used to accompany the "ring shout." The "ring shout," in truth, ...
James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson, 2009
4
Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the ...
The back-rail they found to seriously impede this exercise.59 The religious dance
most frequently described was the ring shout of the slaves in the Sea Islands. The
ring shout, musicologists agree, is a particularly strong example of ...
5
Shout Because You're Free: The African American
Ring Shout ...
However a book published in 1976 presents the most compelling evidence that
parallels the Arabic saut with the rhythmic practice of the ring shout. Before
investigating that source, a comment about the melodic use of ring shout songs is
...
6
Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', and Slam Dunking
Ring Shout! Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Black Music Inquiry (1991)
SAMUEL A. FLOYD, JR. While literary scholars such as Houston Baker and
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. turned to the traditions of African American music to
discuss ...
7
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: ...
It is likely that the ring shout is among the most persistent of African survivals, this
form of dancing in Africa having been described and recorded on many
occasions. The circle formed by the dancers served to define and possess space
(Sachs ...
8
Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
A central African feature of the black church was the ring shout, an ecstatic
movement of individuals joined in a circle moving counterclockwise to the
accompaniment of a song leader in dialogue with a chorus. Since dancing per se
was ...
9
Africanisms in American Culture
When there was a "ring shout" the weird music and the sound of thudding feet set
the silence of the night vibrating and throbbing with a vague terror. Many a time I
woke suddenly and lay a long while strangely troubled by these sounds, the ...
10
Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the ...
Although there were a great deal of variations, the ring shout was most often a
ritual in which bondsmen would form a circle and dance counterclockwise. The
dance was accompanied by the clapping of hands and the beating of poles
against ...
