Shout because you're free
Subtitle: the African American ring shout tradition in coastal Georgia
By: text and drawings by Art Rosenbaum ; photographs by Margo Newmark Rosenbaum ; music transcriptions and historical essay by Johann S. Buis.
Contributors: Buis, Johann S.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: African Americans -- Georgia -- McIntosh County -- Social life and customs.; African Americans -- Georgia -- McIntosh County -- Religion.; African Americans -- Georgia -- McIntosh County -- Folklore.; Folklore -- Georgia -- McIntosh County.; McIntosh County (Ga.) -- Social life and customs.; McIntosh County (Ga.) -- Religious life and customs.
Genres: Folklore.
Description: The ring shout is the oldest-known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and percussion survives today in the Bolden community of McIntosh County, Georgia. Incorporating oral history, first-person accounts, musical transcriptions, photographs, and drawings, Shout Because You're Free documents a group of performers known as the McIntosh County Shouters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188) and index.