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Colored women sittin' on high : womanist sermonic practice in literature and music / Melanie R. Hill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Melanie R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Womanist theology.
- African American women clergy.
- Sermons, American--African American authors--History and criticism.
- Sermons, American.
- Sermons in literature.
- African American women in literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Sermons--History and criticism.
- Sermons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxv, 292 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Womanist sermonic practice in literature and music
- Colored women sitting on high
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
- Contents:
- When the Preachers Dance / by Rev. Dr. Claudette Anderson Copeland
- Left-Handed Sermons in a Right-Handed World: Pauli Murray, Quadruple-Consciousness, and the Art of the Sermon in African American Literature
- "A Womanist Vibe with a Blues Sensibility": Disrupting Heaven Through Sermon and Song in Their Eyes Were Watching God
- "Armed with the Word and Shaped by the Blues": Toward a Womanist Hermeneutic of Regeneration in The Amen Corner and Just Above My Head
- Tongues on Fire: Black Women and the Making of Sermonic Space
- We, Too, Preach Freedom: A Symphony of Sermonic Sound
- "Sound Falls 'Round Me Like Rain": Toward a Womanist Sermonic Aesthetic in the Sermon-Songs of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Aretha Franklin, Shirley Caesar, Jill Scott, Ursula Rucker, and Ms. Lauryn Hill
- Coda. When the Women Preach / by Melanie R. Hill ; Who Are We? / by Cynthia L. Hale.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hill, Melanie R. Colored women sittin' on high.
- ISBN:
- 9781469685113 (electronic bk.)
- 1469685116 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90102224645
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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