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McIntosh County Shouters (Uncredited)

McIntosh County Shouters

The members of the McIntosh Country Shouters are all related either by blood or marriage and decedents of, former slaves, London and Amy Jenkins. Their work has been hailed as "a national treasure that has preserved one of the oldest forms of African American cultural and religious expression with a direct link to African roots” by Robert H. Browning, Executive & Artistic Director of the World Music Institute, who notes that the group’s “performances in New York City over the past twenty-one years have held audiences spellbound and contributed to a greater understanding of early African American culture.” The McIntosh County Shouters formed as a professional performing group in 1980. However, the “shouting” began centuries before, as after their ancestors had finished a long day's work on the plantation, they would come home and praise the fact that they had survived yet another day.

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McIntosh County Shouters 12/1/10: McIntosh County Shouters

Georgia’s NEA Heritage Award winners preserve the tradition of ring shouting, a call-and-response form of singing formed on plantations in the 18th and 19th centuries. Part of Homegrown: The Music of America.

McIntosh County Shouters

Georgia’s NEA Heritage Award winners preserve the tradition of ring shouting, a call-and-response form of singing formed on plantations in the 18th and 19th centuries. Part of Homegrown: The Music of America.

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