“Let the Church Sing!”: Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community

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“Let the Church Sing!”: Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community is based on years of fieldwork by an Irish ethnomusicologist, who examines, in more detail than ever before, how more than a few facets of the Clear Creek citizens’ worldview find expression through religious ritual and music. Thérèse Smith, though at first very much an outsider, regularly found herself welcomed into Clear Creek by members and officials of the Clear Creek Missionary Baptist Church. She was once permitted to record many hours’ worth of sermons and making a song and engaged in community events as a participant-observer. As well as, she conducted plentiful interviews, not just at Clear Creek but, for comparison, at Main St. Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. All of this enables her to analyze in detail how music is interwoven in the worship service, how people feel about the music that they make and hear, and, more most often, how the religious views so vividly expressed assist the Church’s members take into consideration the relationship between themselves, their community, and the larger world. Music and prayer enable the members and leaders of the Church to bring the realm of the spiritual into intersection with the material world in a particularly active way. The book is enriched by extensive musical transcriptions and an accompanying CD of recordings from actual church services and products, and these are examined in detail in the book itself. Thérèse Smith is in the Music Department, University College, Dublin.

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