Let the Church Sing!: Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community.(Book Review)

"Let the Church Sing!": Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community. By Therese Smith. Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, 2004. [xxi, 293 p. ISBN 1-58046-157-3. $45.00.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.

As a black American born and raised in the Southeast and brought up in a Pentecostal church. I was immediately interested in Let the Church Sing!, an ethnographic study of a rural black Mississippi community, their styles of worship and music, and how their worldview influenced these styles. More than an academic interest, I wanted to know the similarities between that experience and mine. Just as Therese Smith, an Irish ...