"ring" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Samuel A. Floyd Jr., the director of the center, developed this approach while researching an article on the "ring shout," a religious dance associated with the slavery period.
- During the ring shout, the women joyfully shake their hips and waves their arms in the air, never for a moment disturbing their splendid headgear.
- The ring shout is described as a dance with "counterclockwise circling and high arm gestures" that resembled the Big Apple.
- The songs are performed in the "ring shout" style; the singers stand in a circle and then move counterclockwise in a shuffling dance.
- Charles Lyell, a visitor to the Sea Islands, gives one of the earliest descriptions of an African American ring shout.
- Ms. Threadgill plans to involve the audience in what is called a ring shout, using Johnson's song "Last Fair Deal Gone Down."
- The ring shout was practiced in some African American churches into the 20th century, and it continues to the present among the Gullah people of the Sea Islands.
- The origins of the ring shout are obscure, and it is usually assumed to be derived from African dance.
- The Gullah ring shout is similar to ecstatic religious rituals performed in West and Central Africa.
- Modern scholars still hold this to be mostly true, claiming that the walkaround was a parody of the ring shout, a religious slave dance.
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