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Powerhouse for God : speech, chant, and song in an Appalachian Baptist Church / Jeff Todd Titon, with a new afterword ; foreword by Ted Olson.
Van Pelt Library BX6480.S8434 T57 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Titon, Jeff Todd, 1943- author.
- Series:
- Charles K. Wolfe music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fellowship Independent Baptist Church (Stanley, Va.).
- Language and languages--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Language and languages.
- Music--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Music.
- Stanley Region (Va.)--Religious life and customs.
- Stanley Region (Va.).
- Virginia--Stanley Region.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 549 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- Speech, chant, and song in an Appalachian Baptist Church
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Folklife: Affect, Performance, Community, Memory p. 7
- The Interpretative Dialogues p. 10
- Language and Life p. 14
- The Fieldwork of Documentation p. 15
- 1 Homecoming p. 23
- 2 Land and Life p. 58
- A Visit to Brother Rastus p. 59
- Old-Fashioned by Intent p. 62
- Oral History; Mountain Farming p. 63
- The Folklife of Mountain Farming p. 68
- Material Forms: Economy and Ecology of Mountain Farming p. 68
- Material and Social Forms; Fanning and the Family p. 70
- Material, Social, and Religious Forms: Husbandry p. 75
- Getting behind "History" p. 76
- The Geographical Context p. 79
- Pre-Settlement p. 80
- Migration and Settlement to 1850 p. 87
- The Page Valley Economy to 1860 p. 95
- The German Mixed-Farming Crop-Livestock Pattern in Page Valley p. 100
- Calculating Farm Household Food Production and Diet p. 103
- Mountain Farming, 1850-1880: Entrenchment p. 106
- Dependence p. 115
- Subsistence p. 124
- Out-Migration and the Shenandoah National Park Removals p. 128
- The Household Economy and the Mountain Mind-set p. 129
- Entering the Cash-Wage Economy p. 133
- Persistence of the Mountain-Farming Mind-set p. 137
- 3 Religion p. 141
- Folk Religion and Official Religion p. 144
- History: Evangelism, Old and New p. 149
- Religion in Appalachia: Missionaries and Sociologists p. 157
- The Fellowship Independent Baptist Church p. 162
- What It Means to Be Old-Fashioned p. 169
- Family p. 174
- Religious History in Page County p. 177
- "The Language Itself" p. 195
- Language and Conversion p. 196
- Language, Power, and the Blessing of the Spirit p. 200
- The Meaning of Language in Religious Practice p. 203
- The Performed Word p. 206
- Poetic and Interpretative Language in Religious Practice p. 207
- Language and the Order of Worship p. 210
- 5 Singing p. 213
- Social Organization of the Music p. 215
- Repertory p. 219
- Ideas about Music p. 252
- 6 Prayer p. 257
- The Altar Prayer p. 259
- The Offering Prayer p. 266
- The Healing Prayer p. 268
- The Radio Broadcast Prayer p. 271
- The Altar-Call Prayer p. 273
- Composition at the Moment of Performance p. 278
- Affect, Performance, and the Praying Community p. 288
- 7 Teaching and Preaching p. 293
- Teaching p. 293
- Performance and Community in Sunday School p. 295
- Preaching p. 301
- Ideas about Preaching p. 302
- The Preacher and the Congregation p. 310
- The Call to Preach p. 311
- "Call-to-Preach" Narratives p. 316
- Sermons p. 322
- A Representative Sermon p. 324
- Sermons: Themes and Subjects p. 335
- Sermon Narratives and the Analogical Cast of Mind p. 353
- 8 Testimony and the Conversion Narrative p. 359
- Identity and Madness in Personal Reminiscence Testimonies p. 360
- The Church Members' Ideas about Testimony p. 374
- The Homiletic Testimony p. 377
- Conversion and Testimony: The Conversion Narrative p. 382
- Conversion: Performance and Community p. 404
- 9 The Life Story p. 408
- The Life Story, the Self-Made Man, and the God-Made Man p. 408
- Brother John's Life Story p. 412
- Allegoresis and the Folk Hermeneutic p. 421
- Biography and the Life Story p. 425
- From Husbandry through Performance to Community p. 456.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-538) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781621904182
- 1621904180
- OCLC:
- 1065349663
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