Jazz and Pentecostalism / Jazz et pentecôtisme.

Abstract

Jazz and pentecostalism are contemporaries, arising out of the same ethnic-racial mixture, the same slums of vast American cities. Here the author analyses the conditions of their emergence and their meeting, their common characteristics, factors contributing to their times of force and weakness. He describes how these two children long misunderstood, even abused, by the American experience have succeeded as far as to "become highways along which the whole world is moving".

Deep Rivers: A Pentecostal Approach to Disciple-Making

“…Additionally, both have an uncanny capacity to combine with indigenous cultural qualities and still retain a recognizable integrity, indeed to enhance it, while at the same time abolishing the distinction between the composer and the performer, the creator and the interpreter. 11 Today, the majority of Pentecostals live in the Global South. They are the ultimate synthesizers of ideas and practices found in older traditions.…”