In The Hum: Call and Response in African Preaching, Evans E.
Crawford, with Thomas H. Troeger, relates his analysis of African
American folk preaching by relying upon an indigenous scheme for
evaluation. The call/response tension in black preaching (derived
from a West African tradition) is what drives the musicality of
speech in black churches. Crawford refers to this musicality as
"hum thoughts" and one can imagine the choir responding with a low
rumbling hum to the musical intonations of a motivated
preacher.
Key features: a new volume in the Abingdon Preacher's Library,
edited by Thomas H. Troeger; a different approach to preaching,
firmly rooted in the black experience; leads the reader to
understand preaching as an oral event; uses the term "homiletical
musicality" to describe the musical understanding of the way
sermons are heard and the oral response they awaken in the
listener; and, coins new phrases for describing the preaching
event.
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