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The Black Spirituals Are The Expressions of Freedom
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley On this episode, I speak with Reverend, Dr. Derrick McQueen, New Testament Scholar and Black Spirituals Historian about how The Black Spirituals Are The Expression of Freedom, along with the history of the Black Spirituals, it’s importance and it’s truly the songs and expressions of revolution. In an earlier…
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Black Spirituals – America’s Folk Songs
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Black Spirituals – America’s Folk Songs By Lamont Jack Pearley The Black Spirituals are the product of suffering, the hardships and despairs of those in bondage as they gave utterance through deep grievance in song. Said to be religious folksongs that were born during American slavery, Krehbiel states, “they were literally born and not…
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African American Tribal Music Revisited: A Blues Ecological and Narrative Reframing
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley African American Tribal Music What I once called African American Tribal Music — a term that sought to name the deep, complex musical expressions of Black people in America — is now sharpened by the theoretical lenses of Blues Ecology, Blues Narrative, and Black Southern Afro-Indigenous epistemologies. These frameworks allow us to understand our…
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John Wesley Work III – Episode 1 African American Folklorists, Writers and The Blues
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Published by Lamont Jack Pearley Talking Bout The Blues Video series African American Folklorist, Writers and the Blues. This series highlights African American writers, folklorists, ethnologist, composers and playwriters, that documented, described and flat out canvased the Black experience through their works, connecting the dots between the Blues, Spirituals, Work songs, Prison songs…