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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia

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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia - Rosenbaum, Art, and Rosenbaum, Margo (Photographer), and Buis, Johann S (Supplement by)
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The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving in North America. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and percussion still lives today in the Bolton Community of McIntosh Country, Georgia. Incorporating oral history, first person accounts, musical transcriptions, photographs, and drawings, SHOUT BECAUSE YOU'RE FREE looks at this living tradition. 18 photos.

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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia 2013, University of Georgia Press, Athens

ISBN-13: 9780820346113

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Shout Because Youre Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia 1998, University of Georgia Press

ISBN-13: 9780820319346

Hardcover