Author: Baptist General Association of VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Annual Session of the Baptist General Association of Virginia
Author: Baptist General Association of VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Session of the Louisiana Baptist State Convention
Author: Louisiana Baptist ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Annual Session
Author: Simpson County Baptist Association (Miss.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Minutes of the Illinois Baptist Pastoral Union ... Annual Meeting ; Baptist General Association of Illinois ... Annual Meeting
Author: Illinois Baptist Pastoral UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Voices of Black Folk
Author: Terri BrinegarPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496839269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In the late 1920s, Reverend A. W. Nix (1880–1949), an African American Baptist minister born in Texas, made fifty-four commercial recordings of his sermons on phonographs in Chicago. On these recordings, Nix presented vocal traditions and styles long associated with the southern, rural Black church as he preached about self-help, racial uplift, thrift, and Christian values. As southerners like Nix fled into cities in the North to escape the rampant racism in the South, they contested whether or not African American vocal styles of singing and preaching that had emerged during the slavery era were appropriate for uplifting the race. Specific vocal characteristics, like those on Nix’s recordings, were linked to the image of the “Old Negro” by many African American leaders who favored adopting Europeanized vocal characteristics and musical repertoires into African American churches in order to uplift the modern “New Negro” citizen. Through interviews with family members, musical analyses of the sounds on Nix’s recordings, and examination of historical documents and relevant scholarship, Terri Brinegar argues that the development of the phonograph in the 1920s afforded preachers like Nix the opportunity to present traditional Black vocal styles of the southern Black church as modern Black voices. These vocal styles also influenced musical styles. The “moaning voice” used by Nix and other ministers was a direct connection to the “blues moan” employed by many blues singers including Blind Willie, Blind Lemon, and Ma Rainey. Both Reverend A. W. Nix and his brother, W. M. Nix, were an influence on the “Father of Gospel Music,” Thomas A. Dorsey. The success of Nix’s recorded sermons demonstrates the enduring values African Americans placed on traditional vocal practices.
Odysseys Home
Author: George Elliott ClarkePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487516789
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 923
Book Description
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of the literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and Canadian Studies, and critiques several of its key creators and texts. Scholarly and sophisticated, the survey cites and interprets the works of several major African-Canadian writers, including André Alexis, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Claire Harris, and M. Nourbese Philip. In so doing, Clarke demonstrates that African-Canadian writers and critics explore the tensions that exist between notions of universalism and black nationalism, liberalism and conservatism. These tensions are revealed in the literature in what Clarke argues to be – paradoxically – uniquely Canadian and proudly apart from a mainstream national identity. Clarke has unearthed vital but previously unconsidered authors, and charted the relationship between African-Canadian literature and that of Africa, African America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the essays, Clarke has assembled a seminal and expansive bibliography of texts – literature and criticism – from both English and French Canada. This important resource will inevitably challenge and change future academic consideration of African-Canadian literature and its place in the international literary map of the African Diaspora.
Annual of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, Containing Proceedings of the ... Session, List of Ordained Ministers, Minutes of Alabama Baptist Ministerial Benefit Society, Ministers' Conference and Statistical Tables
Author: Baptists. Alabama. ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Annual Session ...
Author: Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: Minutes of the ... Annual Session of the Missouri Baptist General Association
Author: Missouri Baptist General AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description