... in the presence of a master howler, the jazz musician Paul Winter, and his invitation to "have a good howl" was irresistible. After all, we were not in a concert hall in the middle of a city where animals are rarely seen (much less heard). Rather, we were at a rustic conference center in the foothills...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Chapter 2 Cries in Speech and Song I Animals are capable of giving out sounds from their mouths that represent meanings and varying degrees of the powerful urge for expression. These sounds separate into two categories: those that man makes...

... and furnishing altogether new ideas of aquatic animation. What Professors Odum and Johnson have done in bringing to light these outre songs of the primitive Negro of the lowest class may be a parallel case. Certainly their contribution is a unique one, and Review of Negro Workaday Songs 53 one, moreover, which...

... African pride, viii, 2 African Songs of Worship, xiii, 33, 34, 38 Aji-Mvo, Joe Set, xiii, 3 All Africa Conference of Churches, ix, xiii, 5, 31, 35, 46, 48 Aluda, Frederick, 3 ancestors, honoring of, 13, 14 Andriamparison, David, 3 Angelou, Maya, 30 animal sacrifice, 12 anointing of head, 13 - 14 art...

... outlook. Gaye's critique of American society was explicit. "Rockets, moon 226 Black Sacred Music shots," he wrote in "Inner City Blues," "Spend it on the have nots." With "radiation underground and in the sky," he saw birds and animals dying in "Mercy, Mercy Me jThe Ecology Instead of brutality, he asked...

..., in print, that she much preferred jazz! And yet, year after year, the propagandists of meaningless music continued to insist that their products and only their products had to be accepted whether anyone cared for them or not! It is just such a ruthless spirit that must animate dictators, and it From...

..., growth, and so forth. The second phase is that kind which is produced by voluntary action on the part of man and lower animals. However, here we must have further division, for rhythm in lower animals seems to follow more of a set pattern of actions common to the species or class. On the other hand, man...

... a traditional African perspective, such as dancing, playing instruments, intense worshipping, healing, and sacrificing animals. Regarding healing, one of the working groups asked why African Christians will go to their pastor when they are well but only to the herbalist when they are ill. The answer given...

...-and then with considerable effort-the God hunger that animates them. (3) The music video is utterly harmless, a PG-13 at the worst, and, by the standards of rock video, charming and chaste. More than that, it is patently a morality play. In the singer's own words it is "a song of a passionate young girl so in love with God...

... Power above decided to put people on earth to control the animals. Fashioning a man from clay and baking it to completion, the first man was overcookedburned black. Not wanting to waste the man, the Great Power placed him down in Africa. The next attempt produced a man who was undercooked. Not wanting...

... Music y2, Fall 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press. CCC 1043-9455/89/$1.50. have nots." With "radiation underground and in the sky;" he saw the birds and animals dying in "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology And in such songs as "Save the Children," "God Is Love," and "Wholly Holy," he explicitly...

... dances are very numerous and have a unique nomenclature. The names of some of the dances furnish elemental pictures of Negro life or even life in the United States as a whole. The dances seem to be named after places, incidents, animals, customs, and persons. A description of some will provide a note...

..., and classism, and to gauge its surrender to American traditions of sexism, consumerism, and violence. The most obvious feature of rap culture is its form, which values the spoken word and prizes the central place of drum, song, and story in an oral tradition with deep roots in African-American culture. Animal...

.... Informed criticism yes, reactionary censorship no. The 2 Live Crew controversy has provoked animated discussions about First Amendment rights to free expression, feminist resistance to misogynist cultural expressions, and the role of race in assessing and understanding controversial art. To the degree...

... religious retentions among the enslaved communities.22 For instance, the Mexican boll weevil, which ravaged the South's cotton crop during the decades leading to the great migration, was often lyricized by the freedmen and descendants of the enslaved communities as an animal trickster, a carryover from...

... it on its way. VII It has often been said that no one else can sing Negro songs as Negroes sing them, and the reason given is that Negroes being peculiar in physical make-up are supposed to emit a certain different kind of sound from all other species of the human animal, thus giving their song a unique...

.... For some, Jackson is a self-styled Peter Pan figure who is securely nestled in a fantasy world of childlike make-believe, buffered by Disney characters and exotic animals.2 To others, he is a surpassingly shrewd businessman, capable of amassing a catalogue of publishing rights to songs by such artists...

... is intensified by us, qualitatively coloured, and dispersed immediately by us. It is only we who exalt it-more than that, who stabilise it and allow it to be animated with our life."20 In Adorno's typology of ways in which people listen to music, two of the types-the emotional and resentment listeners-support...

... by thinking of them as less than human, as animals without souls to save. Thus owners of slaves did not dare to offend their God by permitting slaves to worship Him. But zealous missionaries succeeded finally in converting some of the house slaves, reasoning against objections that, if brought into the flock...

... that connects all living things (including plants and animals) and establishes the tie between them and the cosmos. During moments of ecstatic dancing at the cultic shrine, the powers of the universe coalesced and surged through the living being in question. Rhythm, which undergirded trance possession...