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Hymnody Of Change: A Study Of Classical African Orature In A Social Justice Context, Keith L. Royal
Hymnody Of Change: A Study Of Classical African Orature In A Social Justice Context, Keith L. Royal
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Communal music has been and is still a prominent method of cultural expression for generations, in particular for the generations of displaced Africans on American soil. The roots of this music, an amalgam of African tradition and a forced Christianity, have remained a constant companion to African American cultural response to inequity. Thus, it is imperative that communication tools be developed that allow analysis of this music, collections of communally sung works that communicate the destruction and continual reconstruction of a colonized culture. The purpose of this study is to explicate communally sung hymns, those sung in a social justice …