"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... singing group and beloved friend of Clara Ward and the Ward Singers . He writes " the Wards seemed genuinely moved . During the very first song , when a local choir soloist , Goldwire McLendon , sang ' Just to Behold His Face ' most ...
... singing group and beloved friend of Clara Ward and the Ward Singers . He writes " the Wards seemed genuinely moved . During the very first song , when a local choir soloist , Goldwire McLendon , sang ' Just to Behold His Face ' most ...
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... singing the same songs . " " 141 This grief is tempered with a belief in God from which some Africans and African Americans draw their strength . If the deceased was a regular church - goer it was common for the service to be held in a ...
... singing the same songs . " " 141 This grief is tempered with a belief in God from which some Africans and African Americans draw their strength . If the deceased was a regular church - goer it was common for the service to be held in a ...
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... sing at Sis Fannie's funeral . The words of the first verse are as follows : When I'm on my dying bed and the doctor ... singing a " down home country " song . This song and the one previously mentioned , " Take My Hand , Precious Lord ...
... sing at Sis Fannie's funeral . The words of the first verse are as follows : When I'm on my dying bed and the doctor ... singing a " down home country " song . This song and the one previously mentioned , " Take My Hand , Precious Lord ...
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According African American funeral African American homegoing African and African African worldview theology American homegoing celebrations American homegoing services American homegoing traditions Annie Mae Johnson Anthony Heilbut attire belief system bereavement Biblical Black Church Black preacher Brown County burial casket ceremony Charles Durant Christian African Americans Coevolution Quarterly color continuity of African Cornel West Crissman cultural continuity cultural practices deceased demonstrative expression display dress Elaine Nichols emotions enslaved Africans Eric Lincoln eulogy Euro-American European family and friends family members Felder final funeral home Funeral Traditions Gospel music grandmother grandmother's hair wreaths Heaven honor Jindra John Mbiti living loved Masamba and Kalish Mbiti writes Mother Evans mourners mourning Orleans Jazz Funerals performative elements Precious Lord presence of family processional religion represented ritual Ron Brown singing Sis Fannie Sis Fannie's slavery song South Carolina spiritual spoken word survivors Sybil Kein Take My Hand wake Washington West African wore Yoruba