ring-shout

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ring-shout

(Music, other) a West African circle dance that has influenced jazz, surviving in the Black churches of the southern US

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dance			For example, the ring-shout is a circular dance originally used in worship by African American slaves, which Avey witnesses as a child on Tatem and later sees reconfigured in the "Carriacou Tramp. Women's Spiritual Geographies of the African Diaspora: Paule ... by Smith, Carissa Turner / African American Review In a painting of this name from 1992, a maelstrom of revolving faces dissolves the Old Time Religion practice of worship in a circle, which may echo the ring-shout structure of Kongo. Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger by Thompson, Robert Farris / Artforum International			Ring spinner Ring stopper ring taw ring thrush ring topology ring up ring vaccination Ring winding ring-a-ring-a-roses ring-a-rosy ring-around-a-rosy ring-around-the-rosy ring-bill ring-billed gull ring-binder ring-dyke ring-fence ring-neck ring-necked ring-necked duck ring-necked parakeet ring-necked pheasant ring-necked snake ring-pull ring-shaped ring-shout ring-stalked fungus Ring-streaked ring-tailed ring-tailed cat Ring-tailed eagle ring-tailed lemur ringbark Ringbill Ringbird ringbolt ringbone ringdove ringed ringed plover ringed seal ringed snake Ringed worm ringent ringer Ringer solution Ringer's solution ringgit Ringgold Wilmer Lardner ringhals Ringhead			ring-fracture stoping ring-groove nail ring-in ring-ins Ring-inscription ring-knife ring-lifter case ring-neck Ring-necked ring-necked duck ring-necked parakeet ring-necked pheasant ring-necked pheasant Ring-Necked Pheasant Lysozyme ring-necked snake ring-oil Ring-opening metathesis polymerization Ring-Opening/Cross-Metathesis ring-porous wood ring-pull ring-roller mill ring-rolling ring-shank nail ring-shaped Ring-Shaped Phase Center ring-shout ring-stalked fungus Ring-streaked Ring-Structured Recurrent Network ring-tailed ring-tailed ring-tailed ring-tailed cat ring-tailed cat ring-tailed cats Ring-tailed coati Ring-tailed coati Ring-tailed coati Ring-tailed eagle ring-tailed lemur ring-tailed lemur ring-tailed lemur ring-tailed lemurs ring-tailed lemurs Ring-Tailed Opossums ring-tailed possum ring-tailed possum ring-tailed possum ring-tailed possums ring-tailed possums ring-tailed possums Ring-Target Beam Transport ring-type hanger RING1 and YY1 Binding Protein Ring3 Ringback Nonsecure

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