Dr. Watts and Mahalia Jackson - The Development, Decline, and Survival of a Folk Style in America
1961; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/924323
ISSN2156-7417
Autores Tópico(s)Theater, Performance, and Music History
ResumoT he singing style to be treated here has had several appellations. Lining-out is perhaps the most familiar term. The term deaconing may be better known in England. The style, as practiced by American Negroes, is called long-meter or Dr. Watts. The descriptive terms surge-singing or surging were used by George Pullen Jackson to describe the Negro practice. The literature indicates somewhat misleadingly that the style has disappeared. We read (Thompson, 1956):
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