...William C. Turner, Jr. © Copyright 1988 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1988 The Musicality of Black Preaching: A Phenomenology William C. Turner, Jr. The Pervasiveness of the Idiom One who observes the Black Church from within the context of its life as a worshiping community is soon struck...

...Michael A. Battle © Copyright 1987 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1987 The Kerygmatic Ministry of Black Song and Sermon Michael A. Battle On April 17, 1983 at the Howard University Rankin Memorial Chapel, I preached a sermon titled "Depth Songs." In that sermon I stated that frequently in life we...

...' through the rubber on the tires, but she had brought him safe thus far and he was thankful-his ol' gospel buggy, he called her. He patted the radiator affectionately jus' like he used to rub the ol' mule's nose when he heard the call, "Go preach my gospel saith the Lord," an' left home an' lan' without...

... years in one of these churches, I was able to unobtrusively record many worship services with a portable tape recorder resting on my piano bench. I recorded preaching, singing and conversations from sixteen different congregations in central Texas. In my observations of land participation...

... of this genre of music in the post-civil war South. Because those who lived blueslife "behind the mule" and preached blues theology from behind their guitars were unable to (or did not care to) articulate their theology in the canons of the Enlightenment language, their religion was relegated to "invisibility...

... and intra- dependence into the cultus of the antistructural realm of worship and extra- dependence. · transformation / [preaching s e r v i c e ] ~ extradependence escape intradependence ~ ~regression [testimony service] 1If one looks beyond the male-dominated pulpit, says Cheryl Gilkes, one will doubtless...

... on this continent," said LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka).6 Brown recalls that during his upbringing in the church he attempted to imitate the revivalistic style of black preaching: I had been to a revival service and had seen a preacher who really had a lot of fire. He was just screaming and yelling and stomping his...

... licensed me to preach in 1887 though I had begun preaching ·source: Otho B. Cobbins, ed., History of Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A .. 1895-1965 (Chicago: National Publishing Board, Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A., 1966), pp. 21-30. 52 Autobiographical Sketch of Charles Price Jones 53 locally in 1885...

.... The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xxiii, 324. When blues singer Son House crooned on "Preachin' the Blues," "I swear to God, I got to preach these gospel blues," he was not referring to the same "gospel blues...

...." Evangelists traveling from town to town under extreme privation conducting revivals with little or no renumeration in places they were unwelcome were often threatened, arrested, and imprisoned for preaching their faith. For them convocation was truly a retreat from the battlefields of life. Convocation...

... ceremonies we fail to see those whose responses to hard times are the persistent evidence of a "bitter .. . chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died."3 Sermon preached at Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Black Church Studies Program, Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Institute, March 26, 1987. r...

... can't preach here." Then Newton went to another bishop and asked for permission to preach and the bishop told him, "You can't preach here. You had a vile life, a cruel life. You don't belong in the church!' Finally John Newton went to one other bishop, and thank God he had the last word. God had...

... thousand songs offaith. Here is fully documented the vitality of his music ministry, for the bishop is literally preaching the gospel through his telling the story of his songs, leading us point by point, song by song, to the climactic resolution: "Sing unto the Lord, sing praises Happy with Jesus Alone...

..." (6364). It is quite feasible, then, to view Son House's "Preaching the Blues," recorded in r 930, as signifyin(g) upon Bessie Smith's "Preachin' the Blues," recorded three years earlier. While Gates devotes his three closing chapters to close readings of Hurston, Reed, and Walker via his theory...

... in hell, where, unfortunately, there is no church to lay their heads? I can because I am a blues man. In the words of blues singers Robert Johnson, Son House, Big Bill Broonzy, and Bessie Smith, I preach the blues. As blues singer Blind James Brewer once said, "You got to live down here just like you got...

... stages of ritual is distinguishable by certain performance practices, such as the preaching and the interaction between the preacher and congregation (back channeling), which begins as asynchronous and moves to regular punctuated responses by the congregation to the preacher's chanting. This marks...

.... For the glorious day When the slaves shall all go free. Go! go! with one accordPreach my Gospel saith the Lord. Cry on the Land and Sea, "God created all men free," Preach ye heralds preach preach ye heralds preach, Preach and pray Original Anti-Slavery Songs 31 11 For the glorious day When the slaves shall all go...

..., thereby vanquishing it, this last enemy. Swallowed up in victory, St. Paul then says with biting satire. "O death, where is now your victory? 0 death, where are now your fangs? Where is now your sting?" This view of death has been handed down to us and will be preached today throughout Christian churches...

... sang every Sunday night before she would preach. And the church would be jammed and packed, and after we'd sing some of the folks would leave. So it got so bad until she wouldn't let us sing until after she preached. So we sang in our own church every Sunday night for about ten years. Of course we...

... fran the Word of the Lord : the bur - den and the ~roor-ise they are To preach the ll.OS- pel of Their zeal and oour-age by JlOOd rews to ?heir faith was the poQr, un- til in- spared, and Sa - ""l't and CQ!I tin s e - vll fus- ion are they loOJld rot be a- Shar-ing the prcm-ise of a King- dan of lDve...