Theology and the Blues

Justin McLendon

doi:10.5771/9781978714595

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1458-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1459-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 254
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
1. Communicating Culture No access
2. Social and Cultural Critic No access
3. Social Unity No access
4. Collective Memory No access
5. Summary of the Volume No access
6. Notes No access
1. Soul Music No access
2. Low Down Rolling Stone and Soul Salvation No access
3. This Land and Embodied Liberation No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Ledgers and Balance Sheets No access
2. Moral Accounting in the Blues No access
3. Faith in a Justice-to-Come No access
4. Truth-Telling and Settling Accounts No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Body: Bottom Up versus Top Down No access
  2. Embodiment No access
  3. Proprioception No access
  4. Numinosity and the Body No access
2. 1. Rhythm in the Blues No access
  2. 1. Rhythm and Entrainment No access
  3. Synchronization No access
  4. Rhythm and Shamanism No access
3. 1. Primary Affects No access
  2. Self-Regulation of Affect No access
4. 1. Empathy No access
  2. Social Connection No access
  3. Implications for Theology and Worship No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Protest Music No access
2. Protesting Our Lived Experiences No access
3. Fannie Lou Hamer No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. The Spirituals No access
2. 1. Jazz, Protest, and Triumph No access
  2. Louis Armstrong, “Why Am I So Black and Blue?” No access
  3. Duke Ellington and Black Dignity No access
  4. Billie Holiday and “Strange Fruit” No access
  5. Miles Davis, the Police, and Refusing “Crow Jim” No access
  6. John Coltrane and “Alabama” No access
  7. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jazz, and “I Have a Dream” No access
  8. Marion Anderson, Racism, and Abraham Lincoln No access
  9. Race, Music, Progress, and Hope No access
3. Notes No access
4. Bibliography No access
1. Muddy Waters: A Short Biography No access
2. A Spectrum of Sacred Music No access
3. “I Be’s Troubled” No access
4. “Catfish Blues” No access
5. Transatlantic Waves for the “Catfish” No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. The Man and the Myth No access
2. Conclusion No access
3. Notes No access
4. Bibliography No access
1. The Sermon No access
2. A History of “Death Letter Blues” No access
3. “Death Letter Blues”—Version I No access
4. “Death Letter Blues”—Version II No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Rhetoric and the Theology of the Blues No access
2. Preaching Rhetoric, Spirituals, and “Secular Spirituals” No access
3. The Devil’s Music Finishes the Spectrum No access
4. Blues Formula Is a Growing Spirit No access
5. The Sad Song That Makes You Feel Good No access
6. The Perseverance in the Blues Idiom Rises with the Embrace of Womanist Theology No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Cohesive Attributes in Black Song No access
2. Prodigal Son No access
3. Sun Is Going Down No access
4. Fool’s Blues No access
5. Naked Cry of the Heart No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Theology of Suffering No access
2. The Birth of the Blues No access
3. The Devil’s Music No access
4. Stages of Grief No access
5. Synthesis No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Songs Born of Suffering No access
2. Lament Understood through Communal Consciousness No access
3. Song as a Means of Healing the Pain No access
4. The Problem of Pain and Worship No access
5. “Lord, Have Mercy, If You Please” No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
Subject Index No access Pages 247 - 248
Name Index No access Pages 249 - 250
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 251 - 254