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Furthermore, they extract useful lessons for fostering faith communities around the globe.
Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century
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Pages: 298
Authors: Bode Omojola
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: University Rochester Press

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Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yorùbá genres of music.
Songs of Zion
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Pages: 445
Authors: James T. Campbell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-09-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transf
The Black Church
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The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr
Singing in My Soul
Language: en
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Authors: Jerma A. Jackson
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Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II.