This pancocojams post presents information about and examples of the double clap that is found in numerous music genres.
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the producers and publishers of these videos on YouTube. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post. -snip- Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-low-country-clap-also-known-as.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "The Double Clap (information & examples from Gospel, R&B, & Pop Music)."
**** INFORMATION ABOUT "THE DOUBLE CLAP" (ALSO KNOWN AS "THE SOUL CLAP") Online Excerpt #1 From https://overland.org.au/2019/11/clap-back-pop-musics-love-affair-with-the-double-clap/ "Clap back: pop music’s love affair with the double clap" published by Aimee Knight, 12 November 2019 ..."In the 1960s, girl groups and solo starlets began using
double claps to evoke the schoolyard sassiness that bubbles in The Angels’ ‘My
Boyfriend’s Back’, as well as dance-songs like Little Eva’s ‘The Loco-Motion’
and Shirley Ellis’ ‘The Clapping Song’. The latter, with its pat-a-cake-style
instructions, seems deliberately designed to infantilise its 36-year-old
singer. Surprising, then, that it only took a few years for the double clap to
come of age, thanks to its virulent use in 1970s soul, funk and R&B jams.
From the speculative history of Boney M’s ‘Rasputin’ to the
barometric fantasy of ‘It’s Raining Men’ by The Weather Girls, double claps –
when performed and recorded by real, live musicians – infused disco’s
synthesiser hits with the primal slap of humanity. The snappy flourishes of
Kool & the Gang’s ‘Ladies’ Night’ are a dry yet fanciful siren’s call.
Meanwhile, the hand claps in George Benson’s ‘Give Me the Night’ reverberate
with such fervour that they were surely recorded in a cavernous, abandoned
roller-rink. Either way, it’s party time, and everyone’s invited.
[...]
In the 1980s, chart toppers like Madonna’s ‘Holiday’, The
Clash’s ‘Rock the Casbah’, and Kim Carnes’ ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ featured digital
double claps created on nifty units like the Simmons’ Claptrap. Moreover, care
of the era’s predilection for electronic drum machines and gated reverb, double
snare hits are often misremembered as double claps, especially when performers
flagrantly clapped along in the accompanying music videos. See: Prince in
‘Little Red Corvette’, Hall & Oates in ‘Private Eyes’.
Synthesised and recorded double claps persisted into the
nineties, staple to all manner of hip-hop tracks, from the visceral ‘Got Your
Money’ by Ol’ Dirty Bastard ft. Kelis, to Will Smith’s fantastically plastic
‘Men in Black’ theme (itself a corporate rework of the aforementioned Patrice
Rushen song).
Double claps have pepped up other film and TV themes, too.
In 1983, a carefree double clap welcomed folks to Fraggle Rock....
A paean to pop trends and cultural memory, Queen’s
chart-topping single Radio Ga Ga’ is fuelled by an iconic clap-along hook.
Viewers watching the music video today may be surprised to see that singer
Freddie Mercury only incites the crowd to clap during the first chorus, but not
on subsequent rounds – notable, since the impulse now feels inseparable from
the song. When Queen performed it at Live Aid in 1985, some 72,000 people
joined in, perhaps resulting in the largest ever en-masse double clap. In fact,
crowd shots reveal that many of the London punters didn’t want (or couldn’t
tell when) to stop.
Double claps didn’t feed the world that day, and they’ve
likely had their finest hour, but they’re powerful and unpredictable
contagions, all the same. Someone has to love them."
The double handclap – most powerfully deployed in Patrice
Rushen’s Forget Me Nots – is now a staple of pop thanks to Dua Lipa and more.
Its practitioners explain why it’s still so catchy ..."Dua Lipa’s Dance the Night...provides the Barbies’
slick choreography with a gesture that’s very familiar to pop music fans: the
disco double clap.
Like the disco string sound, gated reverb or the orchestra
stab, it is traceable through generations of pop.
Made up of two quick claps and usually found at the end of a
repeating four- or eight-bar phrase, the motif’s musical function is to gather
the energy of the bars before it, and release it into the next. But the double
clap feels cheeky, silly and faintly magical – the musical equivalent of waving
a magic wand with a big shiny star on the end and watching the next phase of
the song appear from nowhere.
[…]
Johnson points to Patrice Rushen’s 1982 song Forget Me Nots
as the classic double clap track…. A sleeper hit deemed a flop by her label
executives, Forget Me Nots earned Rushen a Grammy nomination for best female
R&B performer, and the track has been revisited by successive generations:
in the late 80s, with the trampoline scene in the Tom Hanks movie Big; the 90s,
as the title track of Will Smith’s Men in Black; and the 2020s, in a TikTok
dance where participants would freestyle for a few bars before gravitating back
to the rhythmic hook. Every generation that revisits the track focuses on the
clap, although as Rushen the opening is “actually snap clap – everybody makes
this mistake”. (It changes to two claps later on in the track.)
In turn, Rushen points to its presence in Motown and gospel,
and in moments such as the intro to Car Wash, originally released by Rose Royce
in 1976. The double clap is “part of the legacy and history of American dance
music,” she says, “whether you think of the Latin clave, or pop music, all of
it leads back to Africa. Its derivatives, where and how it’s placed – in music
that’s particularly for the purpose of movement – that’s where you’ll find the
double clap used.” Musically speaking, she adds: “It gives a certain kind of
rhythmic pull.” The double clap in Forget Me Nots really pops “because it’s in
the clear”, fitting especially well within funk’s sparse rhythmic architecture…..
For younger producers reviving the language of previous pop
generations but undaunted by – or actively seeking – cliche, there is a new
function for the double clap. “It’s almost like a call and response thing”
between audiences and performers, says producer Lucy Tun. (She uses a relation
of the double-clap motif in the rhythmic stabs on her 2020 track Another Week).”…
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #1 Rose Royce's hit R&B song "Car Wash" was first released in 1976. This video is found at the top of this post.
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - EXPLAINED || Hand Clapping: The Rhythm of The Black Church
Black Music Archive, Sep 10, 2023
EXPLAINED || Technique Episodes
The Voice: EXPLAINED is a music education docu-series
created by award-winning multi-disciplinary artist Milik Kashad, designed to
educate listeners and viewers on the science and history of music and singing
in an easy-to-understand and engaging way!
This episode focuses on the rhythms of hand clapping
incorporated in traditional Black Gospel music. -snip- Also, click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mIPenJXF8Q&t=21s for a YouTube video entitled "I miss double clap church songs". That video shows a young Black man seated in his car singing "old school" Gospel songs.
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #3-The Double Clap!!
Redinex, Nov. 28, 2021 -snip- Here are a few comments from this short video's discussion thread with numbers added for referencing purposes only) 1. @shawtyblackatl, 2022 "Baby…… if you from the lowcountry of South Carolina this is
how we get down"
** Reply 2. @donjuan1942, 2022 "I knew this was South Carolina this the upstate churchin too
especially off in the backwoods this got
me missing home"
** Reply 4. @cedfri, 2023 "We grew double clapping and foot stomping in Mississippi,
common in the south"
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 -Eddie Floyd Performs "Knock On Wood" at In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul accompanied by the White House band.
infomisa, Aug 26, 2013
Eddie Floyd Performs "Knock On Wood" at In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul accompanied by the White House band. -snip- Notice at 1:37 to around 1:51 in that video Eddy Floyd says "Everybody put your hands together. Gimme a little soul clap". On those words the former President Obama, his wife Michelle, his daughters, and the rest of the audience do a fast double clap.
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 - Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots (Official Video)
Strut Records, July 11, 2019 [This R&B record was first released 1982]
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #6 - Fraggle Rock | Opening Theme | The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company, Apr 22, 2013
#FraggleRock #JimHenson
Fraggle Rock opening title sequence.
The Jim Henson Company has remained an established leader in
family entertainment for over 50 years and is recognized worldwide as an
innovator in puppetry, animatronics and digital animation. This channel
features popular children's shows including Fraggle Rock, Pajanimals, Dinosaur
Train, Sid the Science Kid and more!
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #7 - Barbie - Dance The Night Scene | HD
Soundtrackfind, Sep 12, 2023
Barbie Dance The Night scene full HD dance scene. Song by Dua Lipa. Best movie in the 2023. All rights goes to Warner.
The Mount Calvary Primitive Baptist Association October 2009
which was held at Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church. Our Next Session
will be held at County Line Primitive Baptist Church on HWY 212 in
Milledgeville, GA beginning Friday before the 1st Sunday in October 2010.
This pancocojams post is part of an ongoing pancocojams series on Old School Black Gospel Music.
This post provides some information about the Primitive Baptist (Christian denomination as well as some information and comments about African American Primitive Baptist churches singing, hand clapping, foot stomping, and ring shout-like worship traditions.
This post also showcases three YouTube video of an African American Primitive Baptist Church congregation in Georgia (United States) singing four old Gospel songs.
In addition, some comments from several YouTube discussion threads for videos showcasing this worship tradition are also included in this post.
The content of this post is presented for historical, religious, cultural, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to the unknown composers of the two songs that are featured in this embedded video and other songs that were/are sung by African American Primitive Baptist Church members.
KATHY PHELPS, Apr 28, 2011
Easter Sunday 2011 Mt. Carmel Primitive Baptist Church, Ideal, GA
-snip-
Notice how the members of the congregation sometimes rock around the table in the center of the front of the church.
*****
SHOWCASE VIDEO #3-WALKING IN JERUSALEM JUST LIKE JOHN
KATHY PHELPS, Nov 7, 2011
Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association 2011 Thomaston, GA
****
INFORMATION ABOUT PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCHES From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_Baptists "Primitive Baptists – also known as Hard Shell Baptists, Foot
Washing Baptists or Old School Baptists – are conservative Baptists adhering to
a degree of Calvinist beliefs who coalesced out of the controversy among
Baptists in the early 19th century over the appropriateness of mission boards,
tract societies, and temperance societies.[2][3] Primitive Baptists are a
subset of the Calvinistic Baptist tradition.[1] The adjective
"primitive" in the name is used in the sense of
"original".[2]
History
The controversy over whether churches or their members
should participate in mission boards, Bible tract societies, and temperance
societies led the Primitive Baptists to separate from other general Baptist
groups that supported such organizations, and to make declarations of
opposition to such organizations in articles like the Kehukee Association
Declaration of 1827.[3][4] The Kehukee Primitive Baptist Church released a
proclamation that they rejected formal service institutions outside of the
church…
[…]
Primitive Baptist churches arose in the mountainous regions
of the American South, where they are found in their greatest numbers.[9][10]
African-American Primitive Baptist groups have been
considered a unique category of Primitive Baptist. Approximately 50,000 African
Americans are affiliated with African-American Primitive Baptist churches as of
2005.[11] Approximately 64,000 people were affiliated (as of 1995) with Primitive
Baptist churches in the various other emergences of Primitive Baptists.[11]
Since arising in the 19th century, the influence of
Primitive Baptists has waned as "Missionary Baptists became the
mainstream".[4]
[…]
Distinct practices
Primitive Baptist practices that are distinguishable from
those of other Baptists include a cappella singing, family integrated worship,
and foot washing.
A cappella singing
Primitive Baptists generally do not play musical instruments
as part of their worship services.[15] They believe that all church music
should be a cappella because there is no New Testament command to play
instruments, but only to sing.[14] Further, they connect musical instruments in
the Old Testament with "many forms and customs, many types and shadows,
many priests with priestly robes, many sacrifices, festivals, tithings"
that they see as having been abolished; "had they been needed in the
church Christ would have brought them over".[14]
African-American Primitive Baptists may not share the
general Primitive Baptist opposition to musical instruments, however.[16]”… -snip- There are a few YouTube videos of American Primitive Baptist churches whose congregations are White Americans.
"Rocking" (around a table in the front of the church or standing in place at the front of the church isn't a worship style in these churches. These congregations' song choices also appear to be different and their style of singing is different.
Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiIZ0kgn588 Old Harp Singing, Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church, published by GreatSmokyMountains, August 20, 2013 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_lYxMdYt8410,000 Reasons (Primitive Baptist Singing), published by Vestavia Primitive Baptist Church, Jan 4, 2018 for two examples of YouTube videos of White American Primitive Baptist churches.
**** INFORMATION ABOUT (AFRICAN AMERICAN) PRIMITIVE BAPTIST "ROCKING" TRADITIONS
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a member of a Primitive Baptist church and I have never attended any Primitive Baptist church. All of the information in this pancocojams post has been gleaned from online sources. Additions and corrections are very welcome.
"Rocking" and "Macon Rock" are terms that have been used to describe the way that African American Primitive Baptist congregations used to* sway from side to side while they sing their old Gospel songs.
These old Gospel songs date from the late 19th century or the early 20th century. These Gospels songs which are also called "Jubilees" were/are sung a Capella without any musical instruments (including no tambourines), no microphones, and no choirs or separate praise and worship groups.*
These three videos document some of the African American Primitive Baptist's tradition of singing congregational call & response songs without any musical instrument accompaniment.
By "congregational call and response" I mean that those songs are started spontaneously and are sung by the entire congregation with more than one leader/caller.) In these videos, while singing these songs a number of members of the congregation move in a circle in a ring shout -like manner at the front of the church. As shown in the video that is given as Example #2 in this post, sometimes these church members circle a table with a white cloth that is placed in the center of the front of the church. These men and women walk single file, singing, stomping their feet, and clapping their hands in 2 & 4 pattern, or clapping their church fan into the palm of their hands. This walk includes a slight dip to the song's beat.
Alternatively, a number of members of these congregations may "rock" (sway from side to side) while standing in place while singing these songs. This stand in place worship tradition may have started some years after the first tradition that is described above, perhaps replacing the ring-shout like movements because of the lack of space at the front of the church's altar.
The members of the church who participate in the stand in place rocking style of praise and worship also clap their hands in 2 & 4 and/or double clap patterns and stomp their feet to the 2 & 4 beat to produce a bass like sound.
*I don't know if any African American Primitive Baptist churches still worship the way that is shown in these two embedded YouTube videos. More recent YouTube videos that I have watched of African American Primitive Baptist churches show those churches having a choir, electronic microphones, and musical instruments (snare drums, piano, and electric guitars). Those contemporary videos also don't show members of those congregations doing the ring shout-like "rocking" at the front of the altar. Furthermore, the songs in the videos of contemporary African American Primitive Baptist churches aren't examples of old school call & response songs.
**** SELECTED COMMENTS ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST SINGING, HAND CLAPPING, AND ROCKING (SWAYING FROM SIDE TO SIDE OR MOVING IN A CIRCLE IN FRONT OF THE ALTAR WHILE SINGING OLD GOSPEL SONGS
These comments are given in no particular order. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association 2011 Thomaston, GA
1. Antuane Perkins, 2014 "My God My God! This is the type singing that I love! You sit
there for as long as you can and you get so Spiritually full that you have to
stand up and let the spirit work on you."
** 2. Karen G., 2015 "every time I watch this video I love it more and more! y'all better SANG! Praise your HOLY NAME LORD" -snip- "Sang" is an African American Vernacular English present tense form of the word "sing" which means "to sing very well, especially to sing soulfully very well". "Sang" or "Sangin' can be a verb. "Sang!" can also be an exhortation.
** 3. Connie Kent, 2016 "I am a Holy Ghost filled born again Christian but I am truly
ignorant to this style of worship... can anyone tell me more about this?"
** Reply 4. kamaliyah, 2016 "praise and worship."
** Reply 5. K J, 2016 "this is how our parents on the slave plantations sung and
worshipped in the fields gathered around in a circle by the water, fast forward
to now what you see here"
** 6. Matt S, 2022 "Sing your heart out and let the holy ghost fill
you till you eneter extacy. The only one judging is god, no matter how you sing
it just makes god happy that you sing his name. <3"
** 7. mary oyewole, 2016 "I remember this from a child in the primitive baptist church. please keep these recordings alive."
** 8. Shay Barnes, 2018 "Hand clapping, feet stomping church! My kind of carrying
on!!"
** 9.. Ellijah Raines, 2018 "Yes Lord!! Churches has gotten away from this!"
** 10. John Nightshade, 2019 "Reminds me of my grandfather's congregation in Kentucky when
I was little boy. People shouting and
old folks swaying back and forth while the Holy Spirit moved through the
building. I miss those days when church
was church, farmers came in from the
fields to give thanks to the Lord while the older ladies were cooking and
singing in the back."
** 11. Linda Bowens, 2020 "Would love to be in the circle praising God right along with
them. This is what ya call having a good time, you didn't worry about getting
out of service because you wanted to stay in the service. They take their time
in worshipping. If we as nation do this, I truly believe things will change for
us. Worship and having faith ππΌ❣️"
** 12. Miss SoftnSensual, 2022 "Reminds me of the old days at church with my great aunts. Foot stomping, clapping, and sanging along with the deacon's and mother's of the church during devotion.ππΎππΎππΎππΎ"
** 13. nghtwtchr9, 2023 "A lot of contemporary gospel sounds good and has a positive
message, but something about the old school gospel that is truly anointed and
uplifting no matter when you hear it today, tomorrow or even years later."
Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association 2011 Thomaston, GA
1. Milton Kelly, 2012 "I love this! You can tell the spirit of
the HolyGhost was with them. The best part was that they didn't have no
instrument at all."
** 2 .june briggs, 2013 "All primitive baptist rock up front of the church circling the table,
just something we do!"
** 3. Ashley Bailey-Harrell, 2013 "This is what I grew up on as a child. My
grandmother and all my family attended Mt Moriah Primitive (HardShell) Baptist
St. Petersburg Florida. They would have prayer meeting at her house and
"rock" all night long!..Mattie, Lucille, Camilla, Hattie, Annie,
Georgia..I know y'all rocking right now!..My grandmother favorite song was
"I'm a solider"..Elder Snead sung it at her funeral way back in
1987. Keep posting this is good!"
** 4. James Williams, 2013 "Takes me back to Waynesboro, Ga. to
Third Chapel MBC when my Great-grandmother used to sing in the choir!!! Man
those was the days when it was chuch (Not church)........Chuch!!!!! Amen and Amen!!!
We serve and AWESOME GOD!!!!"
** Reply 5. k. 2021 "This is no Choir, no Drums, no Organ, No Piano, no Tamberine, just pure
hands voice and feet. WHO said your church can't have CHURCH without
Instruments. Tha Devil is a liar. This is the best church service I've seen
yet,,,I been with Primitive Baptist 19 years, Baptist 3 and Holiness 12,,, but
I want the pure church service,,,DO Anyone watching see Any Competition, Too
loud, Rolling eyes, Mic Hungry, Music too loud, And more NOPE. All in one place
on one accord. That's why that generation LIVED long"
** 6. Smoochz1, 2014 "Love the primintiive baptist, no more
here in Columbus Ohio, but my parents belong to Prospect In Buena Vista Georgia
grew up praising God just like this. "
** Reply 7. Gregory Thornton, 2018 "Smoochz1 I am from Ellaville, GA live in
Memphis, TN now can't get this here"
** 8. BlkRose, 2014 "Good ole Primitive Baptist church
singing ,stumping, and rocking"
** 9. Shirletha Anderson, 2015 "I Love this song reminds me of down home
singing in S. C."
** 11. mookkers decausey, 2016 "thats old school praising lol we
didnt have a organ or durmmm or a bass
we had hands and feet and a voice and a memory
** 12. Rox Smith, 2016 "I love to watch Deacon Phelps do his
holy rock!"
** 13. Mz Hollywood, 2018
"Thank you so much. I grew up in the primitive
Baptist Church. But when I hear them sing the songs now some of them singing
different. I am glad you shared the words I wish more people will respond when
people ask for the words. There is nothing like the old Primitive Baptist
Church singing. Both of my parents are members of the New Prospect Primitive
Baptist Church Pineville Buena Vista Georgia."
** 14. caldonia lewis, 2019 "There's a meaning in every old school
song, why churches don't sing these songs anymore. I love old school songs. My
soul is a witness for my Lord, HALLEUJAH ! Thank you Jesus. Sing saints of The
Most High God sing!ππΎπ✝πΉπΌπ½π―"
** 15. Dee Harrison, 2019 "I pray that one day we can go back to
these old ways. They understood the power of The Most High, they knew where to
put their trust, love, dependency come he'll or high waters. To submit to The
Lord in spirit and in truth. My heart
aches to go back to the old landmark where we stayed in The Presence of The
LordππΎππΎππΎ" -snip- "The Old Landmark" is a title of an old school Gospel song. I believe that it also can refer to these types of old school African American Gospel songs.
** 16. Jeffery Hall, Jr,, 2020 "π£THIS HAS BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES
OF MY GRANNY!!! She would sing a verse of this song over and over when I was a
kid and I still remember!!!! π"
** 17. Linda Bowens, 2020
"Back then there was no rushing, you
would let The Holy Spirit have It's way, taking full control of the atmosphere.
Didn't get tired of sanging the same verses over and over again, they just got
better and better. Everybody was on one accord got
better and better. Everybody was on one accord."
** 18. Jaye Johnson, 2020 "I grew up Baptist in the North and never
heard of Primitive Baptist but I love it❤️"
Mt Ramah Primitive Baptist Association 2010 Beauty Grove P.B. Church, Thomaston, GA
1. Lillie Fuse Williams, 2015 "Sometime it's good to back home. Cause it may be the last time. The circle and rock could be a way of being
in the number and become a part of the praise. As today's waving . A church
back then could ROCK!"
** Reply 2. TD B, 2022 "Yes, the macon rock as my mom calls it. She's from macon. Ga"
** 3. Aunt Yo, 2015 "Anyone know why they circle in the front?"
** Reply 4. Elder Maxwell Cotton, 2015 "they go around in a circle rocking"
** Reply 5. PatsBooks, 2016 "It's the ring shout."
** Reply 6. mssmmns, 2019 "This form of praise in a circle is prevalent in many West
African, Caribbean, and South Carolina Gullah religious ceremonies. This our
roots, sis!"
** 7. Ann Jones, 2019 "An old Deacon used to sing this at my Grandmother’s Church ,
I sure miss this kind of Service"
** 8. Chris Beatty, 2019 "We use to sing this in church when I was younger. I haven’t
heard it in a while unless one of the older members, or preacher, starts to
sings it. I was raised in in the Baptist way that we had musical instruments
for the accompaniment, but this church is rocking it too. We get into it too
because it may be our last time...we just don’t know it."
** 9. Lorenzo Moore, 2020 "My old overseer used to sing this. She was from SC."
** Reply 10. Martin Smith,2020 "Well South Carolina is where much of the African part of us
still remains due to the Gullah Geechee people. This song and the “ring shout”
like movement makes me think they’re part of the reason this movement/style has
been somewhat preserved and your overseer probably grew on this and it’s
something that’s familiar for him or her"
Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association 2011 Thomaston, GA
1. K. J. Vibes, 2015 "Grew up Primitive Baptist. This takes me back. No instruments needed; just hands, voices,
and feet to praise God."
** 2. donald frierson,2017 "This reminds me of growing up in Green view First Baptist
Church when an elderly man or woman would get up singing and the church just
falls in behind. This is straight from
Africa here. Of course, we are to modern
now and many churches don't have signing like this."
** 3. Bruce Dexter,2022 "Hi. There are many different varieties of Primitive
Baptists. In urban areas where I grew up my cousins were PB..National Primitive
Baptist Convention USA and they Did use musical instruments, had many Choirs and usually were the top
members of Choir Unions. What differentiated them from Missionary Baptists was
their Foot Washing at The Lord's Supper. They had tons of a capella Hymn lining
and singing but also Gospel Singing with instruments. There really is nothing
wrong with that. The 150th Psalm is all about Praise giving God All including
with cymbals, string
instruments..All..so it is Biblically okay to do so . We can choose not to as
well and that is to be respected but the Primitive Baptists on my family choose
to use it all. I am a musician and if God Blessed me with a talent how can I
reject it?"
It’s Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper, the four
counties that make up the SC Lowcountry Tourism area….. -snip- The most well-known South Carolina low country city is Charleston, South Carolina.
The culture of the Lowcountry has been primarily shaped by
the Gullah-Geechee people. The descendants of West and Central Africans who
were enslaved in South Carolina to labor the coastal rice and cotton
plantations, the Gullah-Geechee people have retained many of their African
traditions throughout the years.”….
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - The Lowcountry Sound
Karen E. Thrower, May 5, 2016
Rev. Isaac Holt and Trinity Missionary Baptist Church Choir
capturing the sound of the Lowcountry. Charleston,SC
**** SHOWCASE VIDEO #3 - Soul Stirrers - I'm A Pilgrim
These comments are numbered for referencing purposes only.
1. Azizi Powell, January 16, 2013 at 12:53 PM "By the way, I've been trying to label the type of clapping
that is done in this Soul Stirrers - I'm A Pilgrim film clip [for instance at
.053 and thereabout] when the singer hits his hands one time and then two times
afterwards kinda fast.
Is this off-beat clapping, or double time clapping?
I know that I should know the difference, but I don't.
Help! Thanks in advance."
** 2. Reply Unknown, November 18, 2015 at 12:38 PM "This is called the low - county clap. That's how we do it in
South Carolina."
**** TWEETS ABOUT LOW COUNTRY CLAPPING/DOUBLE CLAPPING These are some tweets from that discussion thread. These selected tweets don't include GIFs (very short video clips that are attached to some of these tweets. I also haven't added any explanations for words in those tweets.)
I've numbered these tweets for referencing purposes only. However, these numbers don't necessarily correspond with the order that these tweets were published.
"Double clap straight outta Charleston, SC…you gotta be born with a clap like that, not just something you pick up". -snip- This is the quote that accompanies this google search link. The tweet and its attached GIF isn't shown in that tweeter feed. However, "ironfire" is the person who people in this tweet feed are responding to.
** 2. Fred
@F_man8326
·
Sep 19, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"This a low country staple."
** 3. ΚΚα΄α΄α΄Κ ΚΚ Ι΄α΄α΄α΄Κα΄.
@hiipetunia
Sep 19, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"That double clap takes the praise up 3 notches so quick".
** 4. Lady Wipe-Me-Down π«
@Hey__Nichole
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"This is when church getting good!!!"
** 5. MsJoyce
@joyshel5
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"That's the Mothers Board beat! They can dance to that!! Get
it y'all!!!"
** 6. Q*A*S*T*O*R
@qastor
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"My parents are from Rock Hill but I grew up in the Low
Country! This may be an SC State wide" thing!
** 7. Shanda
@tshanda26
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"Take me back home"
** 8. Cliff Daniels
@cliffdaniels
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"Nothing like that low country clap"
** 9. Janetwackson
@quietlionness
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"<--- from New Jersey, but I got it! Alright now!"
** 10. Lady Wipe-Me-Down π«
@Hey__Nichole
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"This is when church getting good!!!"
** 11. Karen Priester, MD
@Dr_Priester
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
and
@solomonmissouri
"Universal band clap gene. Central Pennsylvania here. Put a tambourine in them hands and we about
to have Church"
** 12. G. Oglesby
@oglesby_23
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@Dr_Priester
@ironnfire
and
@solomonmissouri
*chuuuchhh! Lol"
** 13. KameraGworl πΈ
@_southernqueenn
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@That_virgowomen
and
@ironnfire
"Bayyyyybeeeeeeeee that’s that good clapπππ"
** 14. π¦π€πΎRespect
Your Roots✊πΎπ¦
@Iceman_0693
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@DiazAndytwelve1
@sxmdx
and
@ironnfire
"That is an Afro-Caribbean beat at it's core. The
"double clap" has roots in Africa as a complement to the drums and
chants."
** 15. IamLegend πΊπΈ
@DarkSideAdvcate
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@Iceman_0693
@DiazAndytwelve1
and 2 others
"False! It’s a Native black American church thing..stop the
lies"
** 16. Ryan-O'Neil
@RyanONeilmusic
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@DarkSideAdvcate
@Iceman_0693
and 3 others
"Guys. It’s not disparaging to notice and point out where
music of the African diaspora is similar and different. It’s a beautiful
tapestry"....
** 17. !UVWVπΉπΉ
@Robo_kushu
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@RyanONeilmusic
@DarkSideAdvcate
and 4 others
"Most likely because the Carolinas is where most of
gullah/geechee people live and they share a lot of culture with Caribbean
people including language"
** 18. Leslie D. Callahan
@fifthpastor
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"I love this sound. It reminds me of growing up in apostolic
temple"
** 19.I See Ya
@MusikShift
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
and
@LeHackJames
"Sometimes one clap high and one low, Skills."
** 20. Jo | Creator ⚡ Destroyer
@jodigital1
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
and
@BlackPowerBA
"The double clapping will have you at thr alta repenting!"
** 21. Jo | Creator ⚡ Destroyer
@jodigital1
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
and
@BlackPowerBA
"From California and we gets down. Issa BA thang π"
** 22. a.k.a. Rufus Buck
@RufusWingfield
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"I think it’s actually a triple clap."
**
23. big LEXYS π
@theQweenlex
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"Ya hand be red up"
** 24. Karter.
@karterrrrrrrr
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@theQweenlex
"for true!!! π"
** 25. ICE - EM π₯Ά
@TrackModeDon
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
and
@CarolinaConect
"Everything started in the chuck.
Charleston the motherland of America lmao"
** 26. Carolina Connect
@CarolinaConect
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@TrackModeDon
and
@ironnfire
"You laughing but you telling the truth. The lowcountry of SC
and GA is really the mother land of African American culture"
** 27. Dr. Sabrina E. Dent
@PROVERBSKIDS
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"Thank you for sharing this video. It brought me so much joy
and find memories of my childhood. πππΎ
#BlackChurch #PreachersKid"
** 28. Bobby M'Baku’s ✊πΎ
@Bobbysworld2021
Sep 20, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
and
@ReignOfApril
"Reminds me of going to church with my grandma. She’s from
the Gullah Geechee area but lived in N. Charleston. I couldn’t understand them
all the time w/ that dialect but the church clap was real. You messed that up
and people would be looking at you like.."
** 29. Jalisa Whitley
@JalisaNichole
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"I know a COGIC clap when I hear one. Took me back!"
** 30. KayWatFlem
@KarenWatsonFle1
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"Downtown Charleston to be exact, New Holmes Street Baptist
between Fishburne n Nunan…double clap all day! #BHS #ClassOf85"
** 31. And that's on Chawls π Dreamcon
2023
@swolebizness
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
"Reminds me of my grandmother's church in
Charleston. Emmanuel Baptist Church on James Island was so much fun when I was
a kid. RIP Rev. White"
** 32. Queen Antifa
@SausageFierce
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@Ayyemanchillout
and
@ironnfire
"My great great Grandma brought it from
Mississippi to New Jersey and had Calvary Baptist lit"
** 33. J Lewis Alston
@JLewisAlston1
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire "That’s how you know The Spirit is Good,
when the double clap comes out"
**
34. FREE
@FREE33584637
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
and
@miles_k
"Called, Soul Clapπ"
** 35. QUEEN LAYAH ♏️π¦
@loveablelayah
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire "I knew this clap sound familiar ππ
my grandma who was born a & raised in Charleston SC claps just like that
lol"
** 36. bro. obidiah
@justfacts____
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
and
@4theculture____
"Our African roots are so deep."
** 37. Warren
@Warren_DHK
Sep 21, 2021
Replying to
@ironnfire
and
@4theculture____
"Yt people confused about why they aint
clapping on the 1 and 3 π"
