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    612-822-4611

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Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church

Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church

Titon, Jeff Todd

Paperback

Series: Charles K. Wolfe Music

Christian MusicGeneral SociologyWorld Music

ISBN10: 1621904180
ISBN13: 9781621904182
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Dec 13 2018
Pages: 574
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Fellowship Independent Baptist Church near Stanley, Virginia, was a group of fundamental Christian believers broadly representative of southern Appalachian belief and practice. Jeff Todd Titon worked with this Baptist community for more than ten years in his attempt to determine the nature of language in the practice of their religion. He traces specialized vocabulary and its applications through the acts of being saved, praying, preaching, teaching, and in particular singing. Titon argues that religious language is performed and the context of its occurrence is crucial to our understanding and to a holistic view of not only religious practice but of folklife and ethnomusicology. Titon's monumental study of The Fellowship Independent Baptist Church produced not only the first edition book but also an album and documentary film.

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