Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary TraditionPatricia Alveda Liggins Hill, Bernard W. Bell "Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition is a compilation of literary and cultural works that originated from call and response patterns in African and African-American cultural traditions. The 1997 anthology includes works representing the centuries-long emergence of this distinctly Black literary and cultural aesthetic in fiction, poetry, drama, essays, sermons, speeches, criticism, journals, and song lyrics from spirituals to rap. Writings ranging from Queen Latifah to Phyllis Wheatley and LeRoi Jones are included within this volume"--Wikipedia. |
Contents
02performed by Brownie McGhee vocal and guitar and Sonny Terry vocal and har | 11 |
THE ORAL TRADITION | 28 |
SPIRITUALS | 35 |
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