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Getting happy, an experience seen almost exclusively in the Black Church and in Pentecostal churches generally, refers to the experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit, usually involving ecstatic singing, dancing, and a general spiritual fervor. It is heavily associated with shout music (as the music and the bodily expression are largely inseparable).
Accounts of nineteenth century African American slave spirituality use the term, as recorded in the book God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves.
One of the early nineteenth century traditional ' Negro Spirituals' to use the phrase, is the following:
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For other examples of such gospel music see the following:
God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves by Clifton H. Johnson ISBN 0-8298-0945-7
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (January 2008) |
Getting happy, an experience seen almost exclusively in the Black Church and in Pentecostal churches generally, refers to the experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit, usually involving ecstatic singing, dancing, and a general spiritual fervor. It is heavily associated with shout music (as the music and the bodily expression are largely inseparable).
Accounts of nineteenth century African American slave spirituality use the term, as recorded in the book God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves.
One of the early nineteenth century traditional ' Negro Spirituals' to use the phrase, is the following:
( [1])
For other examples of such gospel music see the following:
God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves by Clifton H. Johnson ISBN 0-8298-0945-7