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Old Ship of Zion by Walter F. Pitts, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Walter F. Pitts

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Old Ship of Zion by Walter F. Pitts, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Old Ship of Zion by Walter F. Pitts, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Old Ship of Zion by Walter F. Pitts, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Walter F. Pitts

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This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year period in the field, Pitts played the piano at and recorded numerous worship services in black Baptist churches throughout rural Texas. His historical comparisons and linguistic analyses of thismaterial uncover striking parallels between "Afro-Baptist" services and the religious rituals of Western and Central Africa, as well as other African-derived rituals in the United States Sea Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Pitts demonstrates that African and African-American worship share anunderlying binary ritual frame: the somber melancholy of the first frame and the high emotion of the second frame. Pitts's revealing perspective on this often misunderstood aspect of African-American religion provides an investigative model for the study of diaspora cultural practices and theresidual influence of their African sources. | Old Ship of Zion by Walter F. Pitts, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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