...Thomas Poole Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Tracy Chapman: Jedermann, Prophet, or Cultural Na"ator1 Thomas Poole What I intend on doing in this essay is to discuss the music of Tracy Chapman in the light of her occupation as a prophet, Jedermann, or cultural narrator. As I...

...Harold Dean Trulear Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 The Prophetic Chorader olBlock Secular Music: Slerie Wonder Harold Dean Trulear While ferreting through background and secondary materials for this essay, I came across a review article in the December 1976 issue of Crawdaddy...

... and the crisis in community have their foundations in a crisis in our vision. The psalmist said it whens/he sang, "We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long."5 False visions, failing visions, lack of discernment surround us and entrap us-Jeremiah...

...? It is not until West begins discussing the Du Boisian brand of pragmatism (on which foundation his own "prophetic pragmatism" is partly built) that he even raises the issue of music . Much like Du Bois's pragmatic manner, West's mode of intellectual praxis is a product of prophetic Protestant Christianity...

... witness and a call for continued activism in the struggle for freedom and justice. The book, following a foreword by James H. Cone, is divided into three main sections: a historical reflection by Carter, a contemporary analysis by Walker, and a prophetic projection by Jones. Each section reflects...

... to no one. His erotic mysticism and prophetic vision have made him a figure firmly grounded in the history of black messiahs. Standing uniquely in the tradition of black radicalism and touching the sensibilities of today's youths when he calls for an assault on human misery, Prince has made votaries...

... of intellectual inquiry into the theology of American popular culture can be pivotal and prophetic scholarship. A number of essays published prior to this collection help substantiate this assertion: "On Afro-American Popular Music," "Sex and Suicide," and "In Memory of Marvin Gaye" by philosopher Comel West...

... appetites for pecuniary and personal aims-was but a strategy of power elites in the Comel West is a professor at Princeton University. From Prophetic Fragments jGrand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans; lrenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1988). Originally published in Christianity and Crisis IJune 10, 1985...

... in a state of liminality or marginality, a state of motion without resolution. Much that is profound and prophetic can occur or can be revealed to the traveler. The prophetic tradition that we see in the Old and New Testaments, indeed the prophetic tradition that we see in Jesus himself, can be attributed...

... Public Enemy, Ice-T, Heavy D and the Boyz, and MC Hammer in 1967 ? Prelate vii All of us hope that our working together as teachers and students has resulted in a product that will help bring down the generational and cultural partition that separates today's prophetic rapsodists from academe's prophetic...

..., and fantasies: the self as cultural griot, feminist, educator, or itinerant prophet of black nationalism; but also the self as inveterate consumer, misogynist, violent criminal, or sexual athlete. It is this Michael Eric Dyson is a professor at the Chicago Theological Seminary. Black Sacred Music 6:1, Spring...

... reestablishes God's presence, which means that he restores in Saul, in an attenuated form, the state of inspired prophet that he had momentarily lost. Granted, this is a rather complicated interpretation, but it does have the advantage of taking into account all the textual data. It also remains within...

... in Saul, in an attenuated form, the state of inspired prophet that he had momentarily lost. Granted, this is a rather complicated interpretation, but it does have the advantage of taking into account all the textual data. It also remains within the general system of relations between music and prophetic...

..., which includes confronting obstacles that prevent its actualization. The two social prophets are not alone in believing that the black church can be a prophetic voice and living example in this respect. But the church is not alone in its calling to realize ideal community within and without. So...

... music as a conduct of prophetic witness. While Jones does not deal directly with music, he does acknowledge the centrality of worship to the struggle for black wholeness. Perhaps the book's greatest value lies in the significance of its authors themselves. They write with scholarly insight...

... 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press. ccc 1043-945 5/94/ $1.50 2 Black Sacred Music faith, deliverance, praise, and proclamation. A lyric prophet, Esther Joshua, sings her testimony, "Kuku managoma na aganga namala dakitari Jeso" (All my chickens had gone to the witch doctor but now I'm...

... Joyce in the person of Stephen Dedalus swore to express for the Irish nation: its uncreated conscience. The creators of blues were poets and prophets, visionaries announcing the advent of a new day, heralding with their blues the emerging of the lower-class Negro. The newly awakened prophets...

... of the Earth (New York: Grove, 1966 ), 172. 4 Black Sacred Music "sidewalk prophets," who, as the juvenile, self-proclaimed oracles of God's wrath, declare that those who sow the wind shall-by whatever means necessary-reap the whirlwind. Thus, it is not rapping per se-its style of vocalization, its...

...." The New Testament is also replete with references to servitude. Jesus used master-servant language frequently in his parables to provide vivid illustration of the highest form of service-service to God. In the book of Acts, on the day of Pentecost, Peter alluded to the Prophet Joel, who spoke of God's...

... the extraordinary pronouncements which preaching requires. The ancient prophets often resorted to signs; the apostles of the early church accompanied their words with signs and wonders; the saints were known to retreat into prolonged silent contemplation, only later to emerge with pronouncement; still others have...