McIntosh County Shouters - Eve and Adam (Pickin' Up Leaves) скачать в хорошем качестве

McIntosh County Shouters - Eve and Adam (Pickin' Up Leaves)

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/ar... The southeastern ring shout is probably the oldest surviving African American performance tradition on the North American continent. It continues to be performed in a black community in McIntosh County on Georgia's coast. This compelling fusion of counterclockwise dancelike movement, call-and-response singing, and percussion of hand clapping and a stick beating a drumlike rhythm on a wooden floor is clearly African in its origins and most salient features. The ring shout affirms oneness with the Spirit and ancestors as well as community cohesiveness. While the word shout is used to describe the collective elements of the tradition, it more specifically refers to the dancelike movement. Today's shouters differentiate between the singers and the shouters, the latter referring to those who move counterclockwise in the ring. Linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner has convincingly proposed that the word shout here derives from the Afro-Arabic saut, referring to movement around the Kabaa in Mecca. The shout movement is a forward hitching shuffle in which the feet never cross; the practitioners of the tradition maintain that crossing the feet would be unholy dancing, whereas the shout is in the service of the Lord.