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The shout music tradition originated within the church music of the Black Church, parts of which derive from the ring shout tradition of enslaved people from West Africa.As these enslaved Africans, who were concentrated in the southeastern United States, incorporated West African shout traditions into their newfound Christianity, the Black Christian shout tradition emerged—albeit not in all ...
Misericord from the Charterhouse of Florence (Tuscany, Italy), depicting a mascaron With the seat lifted (as at left), the misericord provides a ledge to support the user. A misericord (sometimes named mercy seat, like the biblical object) is a small wooden structure formed on the underside of a folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a shelf to ...
Some liturgical dance was common in ancient times or non-Western settings, with precedents in Judaism beginning with accounts of dancing in the Old Testament.An example is the episode when King David danced before the Ark of the Covenant (), but this instance is often considered to be outside of Jewish norms and Rabbinic rituals prescribed at the time.
A dance version of the song, mixed with fragments of the dance track "Feels Like Home" by Meck, was performed in the 2008–09 Sticky & Sweet Tour as part of the rave segment. [118] For the performance, Madonna appeared wearing a breastplate and a short wig. [119]
Lord of the Dance" is a hymn written by English songwriter Sydney Carter in 1963. [1] The melody is from the American Shaker song " Simple Gifts " composed in 1848. The hymn is widely performed in English-speaking congregations and assemblies.
The author, around age 27, with his mother, Shirley, and his father, Clifton “Tony” Blake Sr. "We are sitting in my father’s house in West Baltimore," the author writes.
The text of "Dona nobis pacem" is a short prayer for peace from the Agnus Dei of the Latin mass. [1] [2] [3] In the round for three parts, it is sung twice in every line. [4] The melody has been passed orally. [4] It has traditionally been attributed to Mozart but without evidence. [1] English-language hymnals usually mark it "Traditional". [5]
It is a sacred dance performed to become possessed by the Holy Spirit or ancestral spirits. [20] [21] According to musicologist Robert Palmer, the first written accounts of the ring shout date from the 1840s, during the pinnacle of Christian revivalism. The stamping on the church floor and clapping in a circle was described as a kind of ...