The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 295 من الصفحات A striking narrative of the Bible’s central role in African-American history from the early days of slavery to the present The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip-hop artists. The Bible has profoundly influenced African Americans throughout history. From a variety of perspectives this wide-ranging book is the first to explore the Bible’s role in the triumph of the black experience. Using the Bible as a foundation, African Americans shared religious beliefs, created their own music, and shaped the ultimate key to their freedom—literacy. Allen Callahan highlights the intersection of biblical images with African-American music, politics, religion, art, and literature. The author tells a moving story of a biblically informed African-American culture, identifying four major biblical images—Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel. He brings these themes to life in a unique African-American history that grows from the harsh experience of slavery into a rich culture that endures as one of the most important forces of twenty-first-century America. |
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... song with several leading lines that in turn elicit a choral response was an oral pattern that approximated ... songs raised in worship . It was through the human voice , then , and not the printed page , that the Bible came to inhabit ...
... Song of Solomon , Macon Dead is directed to the names of his children by a steadfast exercise of biblical irrationality . The father , bitterly grieving the death of his wife in childbirth , insists it is fitting that the name for the ...
... song IN 1837 THE FUGITIVE SLAVE Charles Ball described religion among the slaves this way . “ The idea of revolution in the conditions of whites and blacks , ” he insisted , “ is the corner - stone of the religion of the latter ...
... song he takes up the very same plea himself . In their hearts and beneath their breaths slaves cursed the house of bondage , and even these violent imprecations were in the language of the Bible . Governess Mary Livermore reports that ...
... songs a day of reckoning close at hand. The 'Coming of the Lord' swept this side of death, and came to be a thing hoped for in this day.”11 According to an account published after the Civil War by AME minis- ter Moses Dickson, Dickson ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |