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Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora Book

Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora
Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora, This major new study of the African origins of African-American forms of worship is based on extensive fieldwork in black Baptist churches in rural Texas. Pitts, a scholar of anthropology and linguistics and a church pianist, played at and recorded numero, Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora, This major new study of the African origins of African-American forms of worship is based on extensive fieldwork in black Baptist churches in rural Texas. Pitts, a scholar of anthropology and linguistics and a church pianist, played at and recorded numero, Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora
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  • Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora
  • Written by author Walter F. Pitts
  • Published by Oxford University Press, USA, October 1996
  • This major new study of the African origins of African-American forms of worship is based on extensive fieldwork in black Baptist churches in rural Texas. Pitts, a scholar of anthropology and linguistics and a church pianist, played at and recorded numero
  • This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year period in the field, Pitts played the piano at and recorded numerous worship services in black Baptist churches throughout rural Texas. His historical comparis
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Foreword
Introduction3
1"Magnificence, Beauty, Poetry, and Color": The Afro-Baptist Church, Its Ritual and Frames11
2"We Free!" History of the Afro-Baptist Church34
3"I Want to Be at the Meeting": A History of Afro-Baptist Speech and Hymnody59
4"Kabiesile Shango!" A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Ritual Frames91
5"Nothing New under the Sun": The Variation of Speech and Song in the Afro-Baptist Ritual132
6"Like a Ship": Afro-Baptist Ritual Process155
References177
Audiography189
Index191


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