...William C. Turner, Jr. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Singing the New Song William C. Turner, Jr. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set m y feet upon a rock...

..., Can't git a toe holt, Lawd, Can't git a toe holt, Can't git a toe holt, Can't git a toe holt, Lawd. Pity a Po' Boy Appendix of Negro Songs 251 @ti i Ji JJi Ji ~ 1Ji Ji Ji .fil=j Ji I Ji Ji Ji Ji ~ ht_J. 1 Pit-y a po' boy, Pit-y a po' _boy, Pit-y a po' boy, Lawd, _ II Pit-y a po' boy, Pit-y a po' boy...

... Fragments (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans; Trenton, N .J.: Africa World Press, 1988), 157-58. 130 Blodc SlunHIMusic is the portrait of a person of androgynous gender, a portrait which may help explain his cultic appeal to males and females: the masculinity of his mustache, sideburns, and hairy chest pitted...

... to be the means by which conscientious black people can be saved from the pit of racial genocide. These rappers-known as "message rappers," "political rappers," and "teachers"-posit salient messages that address issues such as drug abuse, black-on-black crime, police-on-black civil terrorism, sexually transmitted...

... there was a quartet singing spirituals in the stage manner. Sitting there in the orchestra pit, Johnson realized the tremendous power this singing had over the audience and resolved to organize his own group. Though the idea was born from his observing a Negro quartet, it found its expression in a more perfect...

..., the religious conversion narratives of ex-slaves, documented around the early 1920s, confirm that the devil and his submerged domain were viewed as a moral and mortal menace. Hell was portrayed in these narratives as a dark, deep chasm beneath the earth's crust, a roaring pit fraught with blue and green flames...