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

Name: Old Ship of Zion The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780195075090

ISBN-10: 0195075099

ISBN-13: 9780195075090

Edition: 1993

Authors: Walter F. Pitts, Vincent L. Wimbush

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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 numerous worship services over a period of five years. Through historical comparisons and linguistic analysis of this material, Pitts uncovers striking parallels between "Afro-Baptist" services and the religious rituals of Western and Central Africa, as well as other African-derived rituals in the United States Sea Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Raising the concept of ritual frame, he reveals the binary structure underlying African and…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/29/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 5.69" wide x 8.56" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword


Introduction



""""Magnificence, Beauty, Poetry, and Color"""": The Afro-Baptist Church, Its Ritual, and Frames



""""We Free!"""" History of the Afro-Baptist Church



""""I Want to Be at the Meeting"""": A History of Afro-Baptist Speech and Hymnody



""""Kabiesile Shango!"""" a Cross-Cultural Comparison of Ritual Frames



""""Nothing New Under the Sun"""": The Variation of Speech and Song in the Afro-Baptist Ritual



""""Like a Ship"""": Afro-Baptist Ritual Process


References


Audiography


Index