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245 10 a| Exorcizing evil :b| a womanist perspective on the spirituals /c| Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan.;

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505 0 a| Preface: genesis of a pilgrimage -- Part I: Insight: introduction and background -- Meaning and knowing -- Context: the social and historical setting. Slavery: a peculiar problem of evil ; Racism: the arrogance and pathos of power -- Theodicy in white and black. Overview: theodicy in white (classical) ; Theodicy and black theology -- Part II: Innovation: inside the spirituals. Story: R-e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n. Roots, wisdom, and storytelling ; Music in the diaspora: the spirituals, the psalms, the Bible ; Theodicy in story -- Creative spirit. Toward a Black aesthetic ; Artistic influences on the 1960s Civil Rights era ; Musical terminology and concepts ; Musical style, God, and culture ; Hearing and interpreting performed, living texts ; Singing the spirituals: slavery and beyond ; Music and theodicy in the spirituals -- Faith and thought. Goal-oriented visions to synergistic harmonies: Africa and the diaspora ; Unmasking contemporary sin: theodicy and the 1960s Civil Rights struggle ; Racism and slavery: theodicy in dialogue -- Part III: Intent: womanist design. Womanist thought. Womanist sensibilities: "A balm in Gilead" ; Reality check: oppression and God-talk ; Servanthood language: skewed presence or divine status? ; Ministerial grace: black women and Dr. Jesus ; An ebony aesthete: celebrating black women, without exception ; Black diamonds: morality-based resistance ; Unmasking a triple threat ; Truth-telling time ; Anger, social witness, and Bible time ; Sisterhood: empowered womanist reality -- Womanist musings. Divine care, divine love (Agape) ; Affirming identity ; Call to conversion, call to praise ; The search for empowerment ; Honoring empowerment and community building ; Community solidarity ; Abolition activists ; Evocative expressionists ; Champions of women's rights ; Political firebrands ; Catalysts for human uplift ; Talented, transformative teachers ; Social strategists ; Witnessing wordsmiths ; Womanist creative singing ; Womanist creative arranging -- Part IV: Illustriousness: the wellsprings of our texts. Mass meeting. "Oh, freedom" ; "This little light of mine" ; "Go tell it on the mountain" -- Ensembles. "We shall not be moved" ; "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round" ; "Certainly, Lord" -- Song leaders. "I've been in the storm" ; "Walk with me, Lord" -- Part V: Inference: our living texts. Womanist, transforming musings.;

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Exorcizing evil : a womanist perspective on the spirituals / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan.

Author/creator	Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, ©1997.
Description	xx, 403 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Spirituals (Songs)--History and criticism. African Americans--Music. --History and criticism. Womanist theology. African Americans--Religion.

Series	Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth series in Black religion ; v. 14 Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth series in Black religion ; v. 14. ^A395183
Contents	Preface: genesis of a pilgrimage -- Part I: Insight: introduction and background -- Meaning and knowing -- Context: the social and historical setting. Slavery: a peculiar problem of evil ; Racism: the arrogance and pathos of power -- Theodicy in white and black. Overview: theodicy in white (classical) ; Theodicy and black theology -- Part II: Innovation: inside the spirituals. Story: R-e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n. Roots, wisdom, and storytelling ; Music in the diaspora: the spirituals, the psalms, the Bible ; Theodicy in story -- Creative spirit. Toward a Black aesthetic ; Artistic influences on the 1960s Civil Rights era ; Musical terminology and concepts ; Musical style, God, and culture ; Hearing and interpreting performed, living texts ; Singing the spirituals: slavery and beyond ; Music and theodicy in the spirituals -- Faith and thought. Goal-oriented visions to synergistic harmonies: Africa and the diaspora ; Unmasking contemporary sin: theodicy and the 1960s Civil Rights struggle ; Racism and slavery: theodicy in dialogue -- Part III: Intent: womanist design. Womanist thought. Womanist sensibilities: "A balm in Gilead" ; Reality check: oppression and God-talk ; Servanthood language: skewed presence or divine status? ; Ministerial grace: black women and Dr. Jesus ; An ebony aesthete: celebrating black women, without exception ; Black diamonds: morality-based resistance ; Unmasking a triple threat ; Truth-telling time ; Anger, social witness, and Bible time ; Sisterhood: empowered womanist reality -- Womanist musings. Divine care, divine love (Agape) ; Affirming identity ; Call to conversion, call to praise ; The search for empowerment ; Honoring empowerment and community building ; Community solidarity ; Abolition activists ; Evocative expressionists ; Champions of women's rights ; Political firebrands ; Catalysts for human uplift ; Talented, transformative teachers ; Social strategists ; Witnessing wordsmiths ; Womanist creative singing ; Womanist creative arranging -- Part IV: Illustriousness: the wellsprings of our texts. Mass meeting. "Oh, freedom" ; "This little light of mine" ; "Go tell it on the mountain" -- Ensembles. "We shall not be moved" ; "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round" ; "Certainly, Lord" -- Song leaders. "I've been in the storm" ; "Walk with me, Lord" -- Part V: Inference: our living texts. Womanist, transforming musings.
Abstract	The spirituals, born in the early history of the United States, still anchor the soul and awaken the history of much of the African-American community. This book tells us of the birthing of the spirituals by African-American slaves who drew upon their African traditions, their creativity, and spirituality to affirm God, and to cope with oppression amid the evils of slavery and racism. The author explores the historical context of the spirituals during the Civil Rights era, and shows us that by embodying the language of power and survival, the spirituals empowered both slaves and oppressed Blacks to celebrate their life-force and power, and to look to God for support in their suffering. As a womanist theologian, the author analyzes the language of the spirituals, lyrics that "name, unmask, and engage the powers." She takes us to performances of the spirituals by powerful ensembles during the Civil Rights era, and to performances by song leaders and individual singers. We meet the women who lived and sang and worked with the spirituals. In them, stories and music combine to form a theology of justice and a theodicy in which God affirms the identity of Black people and God's love for them.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-402) and discography (pages 402-403).
LCCN	97018357
ISBN	1570751463 (alk. paper)

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