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Introduction -- Identity -- Concepts of time -- Tradition -- Moving in the spirit -- Prayer -- Sermon -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 : Outline of a black Baptist service -- Appendix 2 : Transcribed prayers. Abbeville, Miss., August 29, 1982 (a deacon) ; Abbeville, Miss., September 5, 1982 (a pastor) ; Lexington, Ky. August 25, 1985 (a deacon) ; Abbeville, Miss., August 29, 1982 (Rev. Kenneth Bonner) -- Appendix 3 Transcribed sermons. Clear Creek M.B.C., October 19, 1986 (Rev. Grady McKinney) ; Clear Creek M.B.C., January 19, 1986 (Rev. Grady McKinney) ; Clear Creek M.B.C., November 16, 1986 (Rev. Grady McKinney). |
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CD contents. Dr. Watts hymn, "I love the Lord," lined out by Deacon Lee Earl Robinson and elaborated by the Clear Creek M.B.C. congregation, Jan. 19, 1986 -- "Shouting" in relation to sermon excerpt, "Gabriel is comin' out that mornin', Rev. Grady McKinney, Clear Creek M.B.C., Nov. 15, 1987 -- Prayer, Rev. Grady McKinney, Oct. 18, 1987 -- Prayer, Rev. Benjamin Baker, Main Street Baptist Church, Jan. 13, 1986 -- Sermon excerpt, "He died," Rev. Grady McKinney, Clear Creek M.B.C., Nov. 1, 1987 -- "Amazing grace," in slow unmetered style, Clear Creek M.B.C. congregation, Nov. 1, 1987 -- Sermon excerpt, "Satan was one of God's angels," Rev. Grady McKinney, Clear Creek M.B.C., Jan. 19, 1986 -- Sermon excerpt, "Harvest," Rev. Grady McKinney, Clear Creek M.B.C., leading into congregational hymn, "When all God's children," Oct. 19, 1986 -- Sermon excerpt, "I don't claim to be a great philosopher," Rev. Grady McKinney, Clear Creek M.B.C., leading into lined hymn, "That awful day," Nov. 16, 1986. |
| Abstract |
This book is based on years of fieldwork by an Irish ethnomusicologist, who examines, in more detail than ever before, how various facets of the Clear Creek citizens' worldview find expression through religious ritual and music. The author, though originally very much an outsider, gradually found herself welcomed into Clear Creek by members and officials of the Clear Creek Missionary Baptist Church. She was permitted to record many hours' worth of sermons and singing and engaged in community events as a participant-observer. In addition, she conducted plentiful interviews, not just at Clear Creek but, for comparison, at Main St. Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. All of this enables her to analyze in detail how music is interwoven in the worship service, how people feel about the music that they make and hear, and, more generally, how the religious views so vividly expressed help the Church's members think about the relationship between themselves, their community, and the larger world. Music and prayer enable the members and leaders of the Church to bring the realm of the spiritual into intersection with the material world in a particularly active way. The book is enriched by extensive musical transcriptions and an accompanying CD of recordings from actual church services, and these are examined in detail in the book itself. |
