The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 295 páginas 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 " We'll Soon Be Free " from soldiers from Georgetown serving in his all - black Union regiment . We'll soon be free We'll soon be free We'll soon be free When the Lord will call us home My brother how long My brother how long My ...
... song publicly after learning of the outbreak of the War.15 John Mason Brown, writing several years after the war of his encounters with slave songs, was struck by the prevalence of martial images in Negro spiritu- als. According to one ...
... song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How long shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? (Ps. 137:1 –4) In 539 bce, King Cyrus of Persia overthrew the Babylonians, and his ...
... song in a strange land or not at all. As an anonymous African- American poet put it, echoing the words of the psalmist, By Babylon's streams we sat and wept, While Zion we thought upon; Amidst thereof we hung our harps, The willow trees ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |
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