Together Let Us Sweetly Live The Singing and Praying Bands

Name: Together Let Us Sweetly Live The Singing and Praying Bands
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ISBN: 9780252031700

ISBN-10: 0252031709

ISBN-13: 9780252031700

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jonathan David, Richard Holloway

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This title offers a rare look at the unique grassroots African American religious institutions called the Singing and Praying Bands. This folksong and ringshout tradition began in the early 19th century, combining Methodist prayer and African religious danced song traditions.

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 6/11/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



List of Hymn Notations


Preface


Map


Introduction



Alfred Green (1908-2003)



Mary Allen (b. 1925)



Samuel Jerry Colbert (b. 1950)



Gertrude Stanley (b. 1926)



Rev. Edward Johnson (1905-91)



Cordonsal Walters (b. 1913)



Susanna Watkins (1905-99)



Benjamin Harrison Beckett (1927-2005) and George Washington Beckett (b. 1929)



Gus Bivens (1913-96)


Sources


A Note on the Recording


Index