In The Ring Shout, Some Of The Oldest African American Music
Freddie Palmer, right, leads the McIntosh County Shouters during a recent performance at the Lucas Theatre in Savannah.
In The Ring Shout, Some Of The Oldest African American Music
By Grant Blankenship & Cindy Hill • SEP 20, 2019
Photograph: Freddie Palmer, right, leads the McIntosh County Shouters during a recent performance at the Lucas Theatre in Savannah.
Credit: Cindy Hill / GPB
America’s musical traditions are deeply rooted in African music, and one of the very first African musical traditions to come to North America is what we now call the Ring Shout.
The rhythmic call and response singing came with people from West Africa brought to the Southern coast as slaves. Today it is practiced by their descendants, the Gullah and Geechee people of the South Carolina and Georgia coast.
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