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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.
Contributor:
Olson, Ted, writer of foreword.
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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