The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...diaspora of two Burkinabé spiritual leaders. Investigating their “reverse mission” in Western countries, she interrogates African and non-African descendants' intentional practice of Dagara spirituality in North America and the Caribbean....
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...gospel," which encompasses black gospel in the style of mainstream R&B. Many southern gospel performers and groups incorporate covers of traditional black gospel songs and spirituals into their repertoire. Southern...
Whiskey and Geography
...needed only equipment and grain to get started. Those who had no prior knowledge worked with neighbors and learned by doing.4Joseph Earl Dabney, Mountain Spirits, Vol. 1 (Asheville, NC: Bright...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...lead songs, is the physical and spiritual center of Sacred Harp singings. Entering the Hollow Square The hollow square is central to understanding the music and music culture that surrounds...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...2004. Image courtesy of Matt and Erica Hinton. The vast majority of Sacred Harp songs have spiritual themes, and for most participants, singings are a form of worship. However, The...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...industry might have created artificial barriers between white and black gospel cultures, but Harrison sees both cultures as unique because their fans and performers have interpreted gospel's meaning and spiritual...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Sacred Harp singings for its geographic range and provided a group of fifty Irish college students with their first exposure to the emphatic style and spiritual energy that characterizes large...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...crunk with African American spirituality and youthful abandon: "Crunk is the closest thing there is to church music . . . you have to look at it from a spiritual...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...for this job. The people go out and fast and pray and look for a sign in a dream or some spiritual way. One the eighth Sunday, the pastor asks...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...conversion centers operate from some of the same misguided principles I explored in the Convoluted series. They promote sexual and spiritual purity, accepting only procreation as divine decree and sole...