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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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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| 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 | 0.90 | text |
| Ring shout | part of | the Black musical tradition.According to silver professor of history and African American studies Michael A | 0.85 | text |
| the ring shout influenced the creation of Hoodoo | instance of | That African spiritual connectedness that sprang into existence with practices | 0.80 | text |
| then the Hoodoo Christian Church | instance of | That African spiritual connectedness that sprang into existence with practices | 0.80 | text |
| the Church of God taught that entire sanctification freed a person from prejudice | instance of | A number of camp meetings of the holiness movement were interracial as denominations | 0.80 | text |
| Ring shout | related to African spirituality | Cultural | 0.60 | section |
| Ring shout | related to African spirituality | Katrina Hazzard-Donald | 0.60 | section |
| Ring shout | related to African spirituality | Hoodoo | 0.60 | section |
| Ring shout | related to African spirituality | Americanization | 0.60 | section |
| Ring shout | related to African spirituality | African | 0.60 | section |
| Ring shout | related to African spirituality | This | 0.60 | section |
| Ring shout | related to African spirituality | North American | 0.60 | section |
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