The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious wors
The position taken in this volume is that domestic off-campus study can be just as powerful a transformative learning experience as study overseas, and that dom
Jerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Flor
A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants
A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist movement in the 1760s. Resp