Spirituals
& Folk Poetry

Chants and incantations, scriptures and recitations, proverbs and folk wisdoms, call and response, oral vibrations carry on messages across the Diaspora. From the divine to the mystical and mythical, telling the stories of deities and saints, folk heroes and legends. The collective voice collaborates, heard in the commentary of field hollers, and the codified upliftment  of praise, where the spiritual meets the physical.