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Ring shout

The ring shout is a distinctive African American ritual dance originating with enslaved Africans in the southern United States where worshippers move in a counterclockwise circle while hand-clapping, foot-patting and shuffling, stick-beating to foreground the rhythm, and call-and-response singing. It is an oral tradition passed down in African American…

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related to Bibliography · 54
Ring shout → African Muslims Enslaved, Africanisms, Albert, Allah, Americas, Antebellum South, Arno Press, Athens, August, Black Music Inquiry, Black Music Research Journal, Black-Togetherness, Cambridge University Press, Corporeal Conjuring, Dance Research Journal, December, Diouf, Floyd, GA, Georgia Islands
related to External links · 42
Ring shout → African American Music, African/African-American Culture, An Untold Story, Center Stage, Coast, Coastal Georgia, Echoes, Forgotten, Georgia Press, Georgia Public BroadcastingPraise Houses, Georgia The McIntosh County, Gullah Geechee, In The Ring Shout, Inc, ISBN, January, McIntosh County Shouters, National Park ServiceSlave Shout, New Georgia Encyclopedia, PBS Learning MediaWho
related to Historical documentation · 40
Ring shout → According, African, African American, African American Christianity, African-based, African-derived, Africans, Akan, Bambara, Black, Black American, Christian, Congo-Angolans, Eileen Southern, Enslaved, Georgia, Given, Gomez, Igbo, John Fanning Watson
related to Christian church camp meetings · 35
Ring shout → African, African Americans, Africans, At, Betty Woods, Black, Black Christians, Church, Clive Erricker, Egypt, Exodus, Frey, God, Historian Anne Taves, Holiness Methodist, However, Israel, Jericho, John Watson, John Watson's
related to Plantation era · 34
Ring shout → According, African, African Americans, African-American, African-derived, Africanization, Albert, American South, Angolans, Author Bernard, Black, Central Africa, Central Africans, Charleston, Christian, Christianity, Congolese, Despite, For, Georgia
related to Christian · 25
Ring shout → According, African, Africans, Although, Christianity, Christians, During, Enslaved, Enslaved Christians, God, Gullah Geechee, Historian John Blassingame, Holy Spirit, In, Joseph Opala, Methodist, Methodist Studies, Methodists, New Birth, Serving
related to Oral interviews and ethnographic studies · 25
Ring shout → According, African American, African Americans, Austin, Black, Black Seminole, Brackettville, Charmaine Minniefield, Emory University, Georgia, Gullah Geechee, In, Mannifield, Mexico, Mock's, Praise House Project, Sea Islands, Shirley Boteler Mock, Smithsonian Institution Folkways Recording, Texas
related to African spirituality · 23
Ring shout → African, African-derived, Africans, Americanization, Christianization, Cultural, Denmark Vesey, Ferris, Gullah Jack, Hazzard-Donald, He, Hinson, Hoodoo, In, Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Likewise, Nat Turner, North American, Peter, They
related to Influence · 16
Ring shout → According, Africans, Afro-American, Afro-American Symphony, American, Black, Blues, Examples, Floyd, Floyd Jr, Music, New Orleans, Professor Emeritus, Samuel, Sterling Stuckey, These
related to Continuation · 13
Ring shout → Africans, BBC World Service, Black, Crescent, Georgia, Griffin Lotson, Gullah Geechee, Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters, In, Lotson, Sierre Leone, United States, West Africa

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Ring shoutis adistinctive African American ritual dance originating with enslaved Africans in the southern United States where worshippers move in a counterclockwise circle while hand-clapping0.90text
Ring shoutpart ofthe Black musical tradition.According to silver professor of history and African American studies Michael A0.85text
the ring shout influenced the creation of Hoodooinstance ofThat African spiritual connectedness that sprang into existence with practices0.80text
then the Hoodoo Christian Churchinstance ofThat African spiritual connectedness that sprang into existence with practices0.80text
the Church of God taught that entire sanctification freed a person from prejudiceinstance ofA number of camp meetings of the holiness movement were interracial as denominations0.80text
Ring shoutrelated to African spiritualityCultural0.60section
Ring shoutrelated to African spiritualityKatrina Hazzard-Donald0.60section
Ring shoutrelated to African spiritualityHoodoo0.60section
Ring shoutrelated to African spiritualityAmericanization0.60section
Ring shoutrelated to African spiritualityAfrican0.60section
Ring shoutrelated to African spiritualityThis0.60section
Ring shoutrelated to African spiritualityNorth American0.60section

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