How to sing the bible : African American spirituals and Christianity

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  • 聖書を歌う : 「黒人霊歌」とキリスト教
  • セイショ オ ウタウ : コクジン レイカ ト キリストキョウ
  • 聖書を歌う : 黒人霊歌とキリスト教

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African American Spirituals are Christian music that emerged among the African Americans who were brought from Africa to the United States as slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This anonymous music, which resembles "folksongs," is not only the music of daily life in which African Americans expressed their sorrows and joys but also the political songs through which they dreamed of escaping to the north, the land of freedom. I explore the character and the function of "African American Spirituals" by referring to the multilayered nature of the music in this lecture. I observe how such music impacted contemporary white Christian churches by examining the situation of African Americans and the music of white churches in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries in the United States. I close my lecture by mentioning what "African American Spirituals" mean to contemporary Japanese Christians.

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  • 基督教研究

    基督教研究 72 (1), 1-18, 2010-07-01

    基督教研究会

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