Plantation Dance Ring Shout

[@sarahstacy81]

This is how American Music came to be. This is it's foundation folks. Blues, Gospel, Soul, and Rock 'n' Roll. All came from the same place.

[@NB-nh2sf]

Black Americans It was created here from our cultural lineage here. Very true

[@higherlearning8348]

A lot has been preserved in watching this video. The white head wraps, the foot work. I'm so happy that's it's still in my D.N.A. You don't know where you're going if you don't know where you came from. My Ancestors love it when I play this music.

[@kenyaamina257]

SANKOFA

[@TheSanityInspector]

It'd be nice to hear some of the audio field recordings that folklore researchers made of ring shouts back in the 1920s, but I can't seem to find any online, just these reenactments.

[@quitom26]

Hello, you have this program complete? There is a part before this where there are African drums, I am interested in seeing that material, it is for a school work.

[@AliceDiamondFitness]

@@TheSanityInspector if you do find them, please share the links!

[@jjgrenwich264]

damn right man. their spirit will always be in the song and the dance

[@TheBluesmanBlue]

This is what's missing in the African-American world today and that's roots and culture the late great father and son Duo will be proud of this performance and I'm speaking of the legendary John and Alan Lomax great performance thanks for posting 🫱🏿‍🫲🏽

[@micai.j8920]

I feel you on that. I had to get fully connected to my culture, spirituality (Hoodoo) and languages (Mostly Tut/AAVE, also Gullah and Louisiana Creole). Then researched so much about African-American culture and how it’s rooted deep in the South. Looking more into these old dances like Ring Shout, Hambonin, Juba Dance/Tap (there were several types of Juba and even ones resembling Capoeira). I wish more African-Americans would embrace the culture

[@mariavalente8250]

Catchy melody and love the beat and the dancing. Their fancy foot work was probably the start of all the dance moves in the 40s and 50s . I am a product of that era and loved the music from that time. Gospel music and real blues music that only the black culture could perform the right way. Their music contributed to a big part of the music culture in the north back then. Sorry to say what our youth listens to today is very negative and gives them negative and violent thoughts and actions. We may never hear that great music again.

[@sofiaamet.1618]

i agree w what u said in the last parahraph. :)

[@margretharris9532]

Chanting down Babylon! We need to do this on a large scale. Thanks for sharing!

[@woodsofwindsor5116]

I thought you all looked and danced so beautifully! It is so important to keep our historical roots alive and remembered worldwide, no matter our race or our backround....God bless!:)

[@Sportt_]

So I’m waiting for this book I purchased called Ring Shout to be delivered. I came here to search reviews about it and I was led here. Learn something new .. I didn’t even know Ring Shout was an actual thing.

[@jamesdom9887]

And we're still doing these same dances🖤🤎💪🏿🖤🤎🖤. That hurts and feels good at the same time

[@beyondthesea2228]

This comment here 🙌🏾

[@simonedixon7620]

I had to get up and dance and cry 🎉come little children while the moon is shining bright

[@gertrudebuck366]

I Love Their Way of Life!! It Is So Pure and Natural!! This is oh so very very wonderful to see and to know!

[@tiffanyskelton1014]

I would love to help to spread this. Because of the similarities in samba de roda due to the same ancestry being in Bahia, these dances are very similar. I am also from Ga, I live in TX now

[@martinsmith2258]

I saw your comment and went to look at videos of samba de roda in Bahia and there’s sooo many similarities from the foot shuffle to the rhythm of the clap. It’s cool to see how our original cultures simply spread throughout the diaspora and kept true to itself in some ways!

[@reglara79]

I came here because of this book called Ring Shout that takes place in 1922 where these inter dimensional monsters feed on the hate of white people. There are a group of Black people combating them and part of them are a/use a Ring Shout. It’s a great book, check it out. And this video is awesome.

[@martenzabel972]

same here. I needed to hear what this actually sounds like. It's much more melodic than I imagined when reading the book.

[@labelle9921]

Same. I'm reading that book right now.

[@omgbuffy2276]

Thanks you for sharing that book. Will check it out. Sounds like Lovecraft Country.

[@dc5857]

Sounds like an Afrofuturism book. Whose the author?

[@deniseminge8249]

@@dc5857P. Djeli Clark. I just finished it too

[@beforeyourimmigrants8471]

Beautiful Foundational Black American culture

[@atlgriot]

This is African.

[@Bln-f9u]

@@atlgriot Creole - like all Afro-Americans (theoretically).

[@SAPHYTYRA]

​@@Bln-f9uno need for the Afro. We are from rightchea.

[@VictoriaSteiert]

The Jesus mama from the plantations raised everyone in existence. The washboard is my favorite. It's like collard greens behavior for making something out of rotting food. I can see these mothers. They're beautiful.

[@AliceDiamondFitness]

I don't tap dance but I've seen enough to recognize some of the steps in this Shout. Cool to see such direct connections.

[@nicoleowuor8504]

Did you know that tap dancing was a blend of Irish dance (upright posture and quick footwork) and African dance (low, grounded foot work). 😊

[@AliceDiamondFitness]

@@nicoleowuor8504 the ways that dancers and musicians all over the world and throughout history influence one another IS interesting! I see the connection between flamenco and Irish step too (and there were ancient Celts in northern Spain). I think the veins of human connectivity and influence are more various and complex than we can ever know, but when we see and hear it is thrilling.

[@mayena]

@@nicoleowuor8504 I think this is debunked now by historians about the Irish jig dance influence on the development of tap dancing.

[@wolverineeagle]

@@mayena According to what I read tap dancing comes from West African and British dances. Truly an American art.

[@yommish]

I don’t want to mystify or romanticize African peoples or imply they didn’t have a range of other talents, skills, knowledge, etc. to offer, had they not been displaced, enslaved, colonized, and brutally oppressed for tens of generations. Still, the more I learn, the more I realize that black people created just about EVERYTHING in American popular culture. Music, dance, vocabulary, humor, fashion, social norms, language in general... People get upset there’s a month dedicated to Black History which is really a joke when you think about the treatment and erasure that black people have endured. Anyways though, it’s amazing to think how far music went in 100 years and black people deserve more respect and recognition.

[@RaymondHebert-o6u]

We'll have fun kind of like this in heaven one day.

[@charlesmichael9188]

Bette Davis starred in a movie in 1939: JEZEBEL. In part of that movie the African American slaves sang parts of that song. A rich history still lives. God bless you all.

[@darleneburns4093]

Thats right

[@lemontadams3029]

Cake walk and the praise dance

[@simonedixon7620]

I’m literally in tears idk why but I feel this in my soul I feel like I know exactly what they are doing and what they mean by raise a ruckus tonight means we are at war we have to fight and protect ourselves Idk I just felt so familiar

[@davetubervid]

The origins of rock n roll

[@ivysimmons216]

Beautiful!!! ❤️💚🖤

[@pelicansareunderrated]

thank you for sharing!

[@thatonepianoguy_]

Jazz before jazz even existed!

[@alexandria.alexandria.alex6491]

we gone raise the ruckus toniiiiight!

[@kikikareema5912]

Is this a famous song?

[@briantravelman]

Raise it girl!

[@Ronaldo-rt7hl]

@@kikikareema5912 traditional song

[@pelicansareunderrated]

can someone tell me when this was actually recorded??

[@Ronaldo-rt7hl]

I thought ring shout was danced in a circle with a main singer and the rest repeating. This looks more like what I seen called the juba dance that they danced on plantation can anyone confirm or deny?

[@martinsmith2258]

@@astechigen6174 this is more of a traditional praise and worship than the more well known circle motion of a ring shout. That’s not to discredit these Gullah people in the video tho.....their way of moving and chanting is much more African than the rest of black church ringshout

[@MSILBB]

@@martinsmith2258 The last part of your comment isn't correct.

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

@@MSILBB what is incorrect about it?

[@bryankeys2035]

Not the traditional Gullah ring shout rhythm but still beautiful

[@SAPHYTYRA]

One day, everyone will know the true history of the American Indian 😪

[@emmadeharte5572]

some people come here for pleasure, i come here for my homework 💀

[@sadethomas6822]

Well I’m glad you learned some culture

[@ephraimmarkham8560]

The actual origins of Dixie music...

[@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes]

Black got soul

[@codywebster4569]

Wait how they record this

[@lyndaslocs]

Awesome.

[@Smokestacklightin]

I thought it was forbidden to raise the feet high or to cross them in ring shout?

[@quitom26]

Hello, you have this program complete? There is a part before this where there are African drums, I am interested in seeing that material, it is for a school work.

[@SAPHYTYRA]

Drums did not originate in or only come from Africa. There were drums in America before they were in Africa, just like us. We and the drum from rightchea. 😉

[@briantravelman]

We gonna, wed wuva wie. Wed wuva wie. Come along girl, children come along. Wed Wuva Wie!

[@TheTiffmenser]

Praise break

[@renaegholston4787]

Two @ Step 💜

[@veverlysumlin3146]

Beautiful

[@chiarafacchini9790]

Beautiful !!!

[@markcouch331]

Wow.

[@maddogbasil]

Sad to see how beautiful African American Culture was Wish they brought this back instead of rappers rapping about death and intercourse

[@cindykwan9828]

Is it Juba dance??

[@kamargee9680]

This is not ring shout though. The clap is not the same nor the dance.

[@thatsoulkidbtj]

Guale Indians. European historians convinced us they were utterly destroyed.

[@saimonplentz]

Muito Loko né

[@markymarco2570]

Bo Diddley

[@mk-ee7vx]

tremendous

[@Azaka86]

this is not the ring shout!

[@imfromhereiaintcomehere6921]

🪶🏹🦊🦬

[@vgnvz]

White woman older thinks this is awesome beat and dance

[@thatweasel9008]

new fortnite dance

[@SmashinAdams]

Religion, not Truth, but religion combines both the secular with a hint of Truth which makes for a whole lie. That's why hundreds of KZbinrs bash Christianity because people from WAY back would combine, tolerate, mix & allow too much mess in the Church & water-down the Truth. They combine secular & Christian views & ideals to suit themselves & gleam from the 'best of both worlds' & even act like Christian Believers for 'perks' & are not redeemed, Saved or Believers; It's because of your traditions that have made the Gospel of none effect. Struggle prompted the songs. It's the intent & aim that matters. But back then it was about 'soothing the soul' & just 'feeling better' than about aligning with God's Will & Believing. Thus we can look around today & see the results & will until the Church wakes up.

[@brandonh.6324]

R. Adams I kinda disagree. It seems like religion was more believed and intense back then. Thsese are African American traditions and they are definitely not anti Christian.

[@brandonh.6324]

R. Adams you have to remember, back then slaves were not allowed to read or write. It was illegal.

[@brandonh.6324]

Biblical story telling was passed on through song. This song is not exactly religious but other popular ones from these time periods are

[@judyhatcher287]

Raise a Ruckus Tonight isn't "religious" at all! It's about having a party. Sheesh!

[@tucanphos]

I absolutely agree with your "soothing the soul" posit, but that was their experience and our historical TRUTH as well. I just don't see how this historical truth causes "christianity bashing" ???

[@5xq38p4u]

Once tribal, always tribal.

[@MrWallythedog]

this isn't near the real thing - check out Austin Coleman from 1934. This is weirdly......bland. Geez, what's going on here?

[@kinga9920]

هذي ايام العنصريه في امريكا ملبسينهم ملابس خدم ويترقصون لهم 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@salmaom2181]

It’s history