The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117785 Message #2547793
Posted By: Azizi
24-Jan-09 - 09:37 AM
Thread Name: Black Church Services
Subject: RE: Black Church Services
I said I wasn't going to post any more examples, but someone refreshed this Mudcat thread:
Summary description by its poster: "This is a song of a Youth For Christ concert in Jacksonville, Florida in 2005. This young man rip'd dis song! OFF DA CHAIN!"
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This video shows the "call & response" pattern between the soloist {the caller] and the organist [the responder]. The video also shows how the soloist interjects spoken word 'preaching' within his rendition of the song, and how the soloist feels the spirit and briefly "speaks in tongues", and then does "the holy dance". The audience's responses to the soloist's singing and actions are also shown in this video.
Also, at one point the soloist says "Give God some praise", and the choir who had been standing behind him silently and the congregation clapped their hands in applause.
This provides me with the opportunity to say that I have to modify the comment that I made earlier in this discussion thread that Black church congregations don't applaud at the end of musical selections that are performed during church services.
As some videos clearly show, there are some Black congregations who applaud at the end of musical selections, and there are some Black congregations who would look upon such applause as being very inappropriate.