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Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans.(Book review)
* Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans, by William T. Dargan. University of California Press (2120 Berkley Way, Berkley, CA 94704), 2006. 320 pp. $45.
Lining Out the Word is a scholarly treatise citing the adaptation, adoption and assimilation of Dr. Isaac Watts's hymns by African slaves during the slave masters church services and how this impacted the black Baptist services and African American music genres in the United States.
The author presents an in-depth study that begins with his own background experiences as a child in a rural country church and is augmented with interviews, tapings, travels and observations.
What makes this compilation of events so exciting is that the expertise of professional historians, linguists, musicians, ethnomusicologists, ministers, poets, writers, hymnists and composers is constantly referenced.
The study covers the time period from slavery to the present and beyond. It is mainly focused on the Southeastern area of the United States, including the states of South Carolina, North Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Florida. The congregations were mostly black Baptist with a few AME (African Methodist Episcopal) and CME (Christian Methodist Episcopal) included.
The book is dedicated to the author's grandfather, father, mother and mentor who "fired" his interest in the subject of lining out the words.
The work is quite abstract, scholarly and requires some ...
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