McIntosh County Shouters

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McIntosh County Shouters When the living ring shout tradition in Bolden became known to outsiders in 1980, a performing group from the community was organized, calling themselves the McIntosh County Shouters. Under the leadership of elder songster Lawrence McKiver, they endeavored to present on stage faithful re-creations of their community tradition that had been passed on from their slave forebears, especially London and Amy Jenkins, grandparents of the current group's elder shouters. From their first appearance at the Sea Island Festival on St. Simons Island, the group went on to such venues as the National Folk Festival at Wolf Trap Farm in Virginia, Atlanta's Black Arts Festival, and New York's Lincoln Center. They were featured in a Georgia Public Television documentary and on a Folkways LP. In 1993 the group was awarded the prestigious National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2010 it received a Governor's Award in the Humanities. Although the tradition is in some ways modified for public performance, adding what their presenter Bettye Ector calls "showmanship," the shouters maintain that the core spiritual and community values are intact—what one shouter calls "the same sweet, sweet spirit." Continuing the dynamic development of tradition, some elements added in stage presentations have reentered practice in the Watch Night shouts in the community. Survival of the venerable ring shout tradition in Bolden can be attributed to severa

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Wade in the Water, Vol. 2: African American Congregational Singing -- 19th Century Root

Art of Field Recording

Wade in the Water Volume II: African American Congregational Singing: Nineteenth Century Roots

Slave Shout Songs From The Coast Of Georgia

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True Detective

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Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast

True Detective OST

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Wade in the Water Series Vol. 2 - African American Congregational Singing: Nine

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True Detective Soundtrack

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Art of Field Recording - 50 Years of Traditional Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum

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True Detective Season 1 OST

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Art of Field Recording (Sampler CD)

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