REVIVALISM

Done By: Trishana Aarons Antonett Hayman Jermaine Cummings

The Tradition Folk Form Revivalism

• Revival is a religious ritual resulting from an Afro-European syncretism - the mixing of African and European cultures. It has two main branches, Zionism and Pocomania.

Two branches of Revivalism • Revivalism is characterized by major forms:  Revival Zion  Pocomania

Revival Symbols • • • • •

Welcoming symbols

Setting Symbol Warding Symbols

Nature’s healing symbols Entertaining symbols

What is Pocomania?

• Pocomania, sometimes referred to as Revivalism, is more than 200 years old in Jamaica. This is an African form of religion with elements of other religious traditions.

Social Settings In Pocomania the feasting table is usually held on Sunday nights. The table is spread with fruits, drinks, bread, candles and vegetable.

Religious Aspect of Pocomania

• Pocomania worship revolves around music and spirit possession. In addition, the worship service combines moral teaching, singing, and movements invoking the spirits to enter the ceremony.

Dress • Typically, members of the Pocomania meeting are dressed in white robes, heads wrapped in blue, red, white, or green colors, as they chant and move to the rhythm of drums and tambourines .

Dance • • • An essential part of the Pocomania meeting or worship , is an African inspired dance “tramping”.

This is accompanied by the playing of cymbals or tambourines.

Tramping occurs after the singing has become intense and the percussive element has reached a peak.

Cont’d • The members of the Pocomania group move around in a circle, counterclockwise, each using forward-stepping motions with a forward bend of the body.

Revivalism Dance

Pictures of Pocomania Dance!!

Instrument

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Kettle-drums or bass drums

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Tambourines

Tambourine

• Tambourine is a percussion instrument resembling a shallow drum with metal discs in slots around the edge, played by being shaken or hit with the hand.

Kettle Drum • Kettle drum is a percussion instrument of definite pitch, consisting of a hollow bowl-like hemisphere covered with a skin or membrane, supported on a tripod or stand.

Parish Practiced in!!

• Revival Churches can be found all over Jamaica, particularly in the deep rural areas and in the inner-city sections of the corporate area. On specific dates, towards the end of each quarter within the year, revivalists may be seen journeying to Watt Town, St. Ann. This is one of the most popular revival meeting places.

Revival Zion

What is Revival Zion?

• Zion is a grouped that is branch off from revivalism, it was developed in the 1860 in Jamaica.

Religious Aspect • Belief in one god • Herbal Medicines • Spiritual Possession • Derived from Myalism

Cont’d • Zion is a Christian oriented folk form. The leader of the Zion group can be either a man or woman. The man is referred to as “Captain” while the woman is called the “Mother/Madda”.

Instrument • The revival Zion used the voice as a musical instrument, which takes on a percussion like sound. The same goes for the stomping of feet and the clapping of their hands.

Parish Practiced in!!

• Revival Zion were located in Western and South-Western parts of Kingston with small groups in the rural areas like St. Thomas.

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