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The LIISI Soul Singer in Amerito: Al Green Alton B. Pollard, III The worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the same rate, not in the same way; and this must produce a peculiar wrenching of the soul.-WE.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk On lbe Meaning ol Soul Soul is a many-nuanced term, ranging in breadth and scope from the metaphysics of philosophy to any number of theological referents. From Western antiquity, for instance, come the well -known Pythago rean and Platonic accounts which make of soul an intermediate between that which is sensible and that which is intelligible. The soul, so interpreted, engages in a lifelong struggle for the acquisition of truth and knowledge, always in contention with the physical (spatial-temporal) limitations of the human body. Accordingly, only after such time as the soul finds release from the body is knowledge to be ultimately found. Even earlier and equally significant ruminations on the soul are derived from the ancient cultures of Africa. These African projec tions, which found later expression in Upper and Lower Egypt, all share a view that the soul or Ba (Egypt) is an aspect
Black Sacred Music – Duke University Press
Published: Sep 1, 1989
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