All events in Battell Chapel unless otherwise indicated
Last update: April 17, 2007
April 19, 2007
9:30 am
Willie Ruff, Professor of Music, Yale School of Music
welcomes teh gathering
A Singing Devotion, each congreagtion sings:
• The Indian Bottom Old Regular Baptists of Southeastern Kentucky
• The Sipsey River Primitive Baptist Association, Eutaw, Alabama
• Hutchee Chuppa Indian Baptist Church, Okmulgee, Oklahoma
10:15 am
Howard Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus History and former President of Yale
Native Americans at Yale 1701-2007
11:00 am
A conjoining of ancients song – an ongoing documentary
Discussion
12:00 pm -- Lunch break
2:00 pm
Hugh Foley, Associate Professor, Rogers State University, Clairmore Oklahoma
God's Travelling Songs: The History, Context, and Form of Muscogee (Creek) Hymns
3:00 pm
Sipsey River Primitive Baptists Association, Eutaw, Alabama:
African-American "Moaning" in Prayer
4:30
Tracking a common hymn across congregations:
“Guide me O thou great Jehovah”
April 20, 2007
9:30
A Singing Devotion; all congregations
An open dialogue exploring the commonalities and differences in the manner and content of hymn singing
10:15
Katherine Smith, Professor, York St John University, York Scotland, “Scottish missionaries in the early American South”
11:00
A Panel: James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale; Professors Lamar, Kai Erickson, Hugh Foley, Katherine Smith and Willie Ruff
Lunch break
3:00 (Beinecke
Patricia Willis, Curator American Literature, Beinecke LibraryThe Bay colony Psalm Book, and Muscogee (Creek) hymns at Beinecke
8:00 (Battell)
Final singing service/ all congregations
Introduction by Rev Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain
Funding support:
The Yale University School of Music
The Duke Ellington Fellows Program at Yale
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music
The A. Whitney Griswold Fund
Abbey and Mitch Leigh
Yale UniversityOffice of the Provost
The Beinecke Rare Book Library
The Shen Family Foundation
Dr. Judith Rausch
Dr. Gretchen Berland
The Office of the University Chaplain
TheYale University Office of the Vice President and Secretary
The Howard R. Lamar Center for Study of Frontiers and Borders