Together Let Us Sweetly Live: The Singing and Praying Bands [With CD]

by Jonathan David

Together Let Us Sweetly Live offers a rare look at the unique grassroots African American religious institutions called the Singing and Praying Bands. This folksong and ring shout tradition began in Chesapeake Bay country in the early nineteenth century, with a fusion of Methodist prayer meeting worship and African religious, danced song traditions. Although scholars have assumed ring shouts died out long ago, Jonathan C. David shows otherwise,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025207419X
• ISBN13: 9780252074196
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.9"