- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- McIntosh County Shouters
- Creator:
- Rosenbaum, Art
- Date of Original:
- 2005-04-06
- Subject:
- McIntosh County Shouters (Musical group)
Ring shout (Dance)--Georgia
African American dancers--Georgia
Singers--Georgia
African American singers--Georgia
African American dance--Georgia
Dance--United States - Location:
- United States, Georgia, McIntosh County, 31.48381, -81.37557
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the McIntosh County Shouters. The southeastern ring shout is probably the oldest surviving African American performance tradition on the North American continent. It continues to be performed in a black community in McIntosh County on Georgia's coast. This compelling fusion of counterclockwise dancelike movement, call-and-response singing, and percussion of hand clapping and a stick beating a drumlike rhythm on a wooden floor is clearly African in its origins and most salient features. The ring shout affirms oneness with the Spirit and ancestors as well as community cohesiveness.
GSE identifier: SS8H6 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/mcintosh-county-shouters/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "McIntosh County Shouters," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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