Titlebook: Black Bodies and the Black Church; A Blues Slant Kelly Brown Douglas Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012 b

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Die ebene Bewegung starrer K?rperer Richard Morgan had just left Memphis, Tennessee, where Bessie had performed that Saturday night. They were headed to Darling, Mississippi, where she was to perform that Sunday afternoon. Bessie sat in the front passenger seat while Richard was driving. They rode in silence, apparently both still

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Lehrbuch der Technischen Mechanika mysterious black man appeared. Robert handed him his guitar. The black man took it and tuned it. He offered the guitar back to Robert. Robert took it. With that exchange a pact was made. Robert received the gift of playing the guitar, the devil gained Robert’s soul. This was a story that many beli

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Lehrbuch der Technischen Mechanikhurches were to them, they just could not part from blues. No one demonstrated this more than Sippie Wallace. She knew since she was a little girl that blues was considered the devil’s music. She knew that as a blues singer she would be scorned, if not rejected, by her church. Her church meant a lot

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Lehrbuch der Technischen Mechanikarly liked one of the songs often sung in his church. He recalled the lyrics saying “everybody ought to pray sometime,” even gamblers, liars, and all kind of persons. Sellers liked this song, not because it called out sinners, but because the lyrics spoke truth. Sellers said, “The [black] Church sho

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-33060-9oute from Memphis to Mississippi. I don’t know what I expected to find in going back. It was just a sign with a guitar and a plaque beneath that talked about Clarksdale. There was nothing about Robert Johnson and pacts with the devil. There was no sign that I saw on the way down pointing you to the

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137091437black church; body; church; corpus; god; theology; truth

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978-1-349-29742-9Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012