SongEra: Jim Crow

Sign of the Judgment

Name: Sign of the Judgment
Description: African-American ring shout / spiritual of the Georgia Sea Islands; documented from a 1959 Alan Lomax recording, with a possible (unverified) Parrish 1942…

c. 1959(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: ring shout

African-American ring shout / spiritual of the Georgia Sea Islands; documented from a 1959 Alan Lomax recording, with a possible (unverified) Parrish 1942 antecedent.

Sources & citations

1.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
2.archive.orgwebsite
3.docsouth.unc.eduwebsite
4.folkways.si.eduwebsite