Hymn Lining: A Disappearing African-American Tradition....

[Hardrock69]

Now THIS is the sort of church service I can dig!

http://screen.yahoo.com/hymn-lining-disappearing-african-american-182216113.html

[FORD]

It's a fact that Sunday morning is still the most "segregated" time in America.

But I don't think it's all about racism anymore. Black folks would just get bored shitless by the music at most "white" churches. So do a lot of white folks, for that matter.

[Hardrock69]

I usually try to find the black church services on Sunday moanin' TV. Much more energetic, spiritually uplifting, and entertaining.

[Hardrock69]

Hymn Lining reminds me of Othar Turner...purveyor of African American Fife and Drum music....another African American art form that is on the verge of extinction.

This is from 1978:

[Nitro Express]

Some African styles are dying out but some like soukouss are alive and well. I love soukouss and girls look sexy dancing to it in bikinis. I mess around trying to play that style on my Strat.

[Nitro Express]

It's a fact that Sunday morning is still the most "segregated" time in America.

But I don't think it's all about racism anymore. Black folks would just get bored shitless by the music at most "white" churches. So do a lot of white folks, for that matter.

Depends on the church. Some churches have mixed congregations of every type of people you could imagine.

[Nitro Express]

Screw the boys choir. In my church we would serve weed and rum as the sacrament and this would be the entertainment.

[Hardrock69]

THAT IS how to find God!