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Shout because you're free

the African American ring shout tradition in coastal Georgia

By Rosenbaum, Art.,Art Rosenbaum,Margo Newmark Rosenbaum,Johann S. Buis

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Publish Date

1998

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Language

eng

Pages

211

Description:

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 Bolden 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.