Protest & praise

Description:

Here is a tracing of two tracks in the evolution of musical genres that have evolved from black religion. Songs of protest developed from the spiritual through social-gospel hymnody to culminate in songs of the civil-rights movement and the blues. Born in rebellion, they envision the Kingdom of God. Songs of praise, by contrast, express adoration. Beginning with the "ring-shout," Spencer follows the history of intoned declamation through the tongue song, Holiness-Pentecostal music, and the chanted sermon of the black preacher. --From publisher's description.

subjects: Geistliche Musik,  Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus,  African Americans,  Afroamerikanische Musik,  History and criticism,  Histoire et critique,  Religion,  Music,  African American music,  Musique noire americaine,  Musik,  Noirs americains,  Noirs américains,  Musique noire américaine,  African americans, religion,  African americans, music,  Church music