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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
Johann S. Buis
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Description for Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
Paperback. Series: Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece, printed music items. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; BGA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 175 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 practises, 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 ... Read more
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 practises, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820346113
SKU
V9780820346113
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About Johann S. Buis
Art Rosenbaum is a painter, draftsman, muralist, folk musician and a professor of art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Margo Newmark Rosenbaum is a professional photographer. Johann S. Buis is the coordinator of music education programmes at the Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago.
Reviews for Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
An impressive body of work....This book should take its place as a significant presentation of grassroots African American song and culture."" - Journal of American Folklore ""This is a splendid addition to the growing literature documenting African cultural survivals in the South."" - Southern Cultures