Come Prepared Tonight to Say "Amen," "Oh, Yeah!"

Hi class. I will not be doing a blog today. I will be doing my first class project instead. It will be a performance, translation, an interpretation of the text of a song by the Original Five Blind Boy Quartet of Alabama. We will begin with class participation in the performance of the text the way we think the quartet would perform its song, "Let's Have Church." I will help with this (by trying to sing. I emphasize trying). There will be some call and response, so come with your "amen" vocies and you might even bring your dancing shoes. You will gain insight on the African American religious and cultural experience from the 1950s and 60s. It should be fun. You can even "get happy," as we say in the African American church venacular, if you want to. I'll explain that in my interpretaion.

Leon