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Shout Because You're Free The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia (review)

Shout Because You're Free The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia (review) had been identified. Certainly, the inclusion of this minimal information in the captions would not have detracted from the layout. These minor suggestions aside, this is altogether a handsome and informative volume. Wootten's oeuvre is successful artistically, and Cotten's collection of her evocative images provides remarkable documentation of rural life in the South of the 1930s and 1940s. Shout Because You're Free The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia By Art Rosenbaum The University of Georgia Press, 1998 190 pp. Cloth, $24.95 Reviewed by Dale Volberg Roed, freelance writer and musician residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and coauthor with John Shelton Reed of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South. She currendy is preparing the catalog for the exhibition of the Everette James collection of southern women artists, 1840--1940. When I was a child I learned a spiritual that goes like this: I got shoes; you got shoes; All God's children got shoes. When I get to Heaven, gonna put on my shoes, Gonna shout all over God's Heaven . . . I never even wondered what shoes had to do with shouting all over God's heaven. Now I know. For a long time http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Shout Because You're Free The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia (review)

Reed, Dale Volberg.
Southern Cultures , Volume 5 (3) – Jan 4, 1999
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had been identified. Certainly, the inclusion of this minimal information in the captions would not have detracted from the layout. These minor suggestions aside, this is altogether a handsome and informative volume. Wootten's oeuvre is successful artistically, and Cotten's collection of her evocative images provides remarkable documentation of rural life in the South of the 1930s and 1940s. Shout Because You're Free The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia By Art Rosenbaum The University of Georgia Press, 1998 190 pp. Cloth, $24.95 Reviewed by Dale Volberg Roed, freelance writer and musician residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and coauthor with John Shelton Reed of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South. She currendy is preparing the catalog for the exhibition of the Everette James collection of southern women artists, 1840--1940. When I was a child I learned a spiritual that goes like this: I got shoes; you got shoes; All God's children got shoes. When I get to Heaven, gonna put on my shoes, Gonna shout all over God's Heaven . . . I never even wondered what shoes had to do with shouting all over God's heaven. Now I know. For a long time

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Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 4, 1999

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