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Margret RoadKnight Jerry R's 'Black/White Gospel Workshop (139* d) RE: Jerry R's 'Black/White Gospel Workshop 28 Feb 05

(Re: "off-beat clapping":)
Many thanks, Azizi, and Jerry.
Sounds like "The Power of Black Music" should be on my next book shopping list!

I do know what you're expounding/expanding on (I just wasn't sure of the terminology/ definition).

Despite being an agnostic white Australian I'm drawn, like many around the world, to Aframerican (a great term coined by Roland Hayes, the first Black to play Carnegie Hall) religious music..... I was even "adopted' by the touring BLACK NATIVITY company in the mid-'60s, and have recorded with the GMWA Mass Choirs in N'Awlins in '99 & 2000.

Anyway, I now run "Make a Joyful Noise" workshops on Black Gospel Singing which include a segment on off-beat clapping (or tambourine) 'against' on-beat rocking/stepping with a call & response song ..... certainly not natural for us Anglo-Celts.

Appreciate all your feedback
Very best wishes
Margret

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