>>KENT JUSTICE: I’M REALLY EXCITED FOR YOU TO SEE THE STORY TONIGHT WE CONTINUE
CELEBRATING BLACK CULTURE
THIS MONTH UPLIFTING
STRENGTHENING COMBING ALL WORDS
TO USE DESCRIBE MUSIC IN THE
BLACK CHURCH.
>>MARY BAER: AND WHILE IT’S
KNOWN FOR ITS CONTAGIOUS
BEACHES AND
SOULFUL SOUNDS WHAT MANY DON’T
KNOW IS HOW THE MUSIC CAME TO
BE WHAT WE
HEAR TODAY.
>> JOY’S HERE NOW WITH A CLOSER
LOOK AT JOINT IT ENOUGH TO GO
FAR NO.
>>JOY PURDY: MARY CAN’T RIGHT
IN THE HEART OF THE CITY OF
JACKSONVILLE SINCE THE BETHEL
CHURCH. THE OLDEST EXISTING
BAPTIST CHURCH IN THE ENTIRE
STATE OF FLORIDA
RECOGNIZED BY A COURT AT THE
END OF THE CIVIL WAR, THE
LEADERSHIP AND MEMBERSHIP HAVE
CHANGED A LITTLE OVER THE YEARS
AND SO HAS THE NEWS.
>> I GOTTA SAY CAME NOBODY.
YOU MAY LIKE
JESUS HAD.
>> GREETING IS JUST AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO LISTEN
AND
SAVE IT. MUSIC IS AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO TALK TO
GOD WITH AN EXTENSIVE
BACKGROUND IN OPERA AND SACRED
MUSIC BISHOP RUDOLPH MCKISSICK
YOU YOUR LEAD PASTOR OF THE
BETHEL CHURCH IN THE HEART OF
DOWNTOWN JACKSONVILLE.
>> EXPLAINS THE EARLY GO TO
SOUNDS OF THE BLACK CHURCH IN
AMERICA CAME FROM THE AFRICAN
RAIN SHAFT SO SOFT THAT SLAVES
BROUGHT WITH THEM TO AMERICA.
>> THE LOS ALL.
>> BRINGING US OUT THAT IT WAS
MORE PRACTICAL.
>> MOORE DIED IN MAY BRING US
YOU KNOW.
OR FOR ME. ♪ THAT
♪ THAT THIS SITUATION AND SLAVERY.
IN THE U.S..
>> MOMENTS LATER IT
WAS OVER. THOSE SONGS KEPT THE MEETING BUT THEN DISCUSS BECAME
ABOUT LIFE. >> DO YOU FEEL THAT OVER THE YEARS FROM THE TIME THAT YOU
WERE GROWING UP IN
THE CHURCH TO NOW THAT THAT
MUSIC HAS CHANGED AT ALL.
>>JOY PURDY: RUDOLPH MCKISSICK
SENIOR SERVED AS LEAD PASTOR OF
BETHEL FOR
48 YEARS. AND BLACKS MIGRATED
THROUGHOUT AMERICA MCKISSICK
SENIOR SHARES THE WORSHIP MUSIC
BETHEL HAVE ADOPTED A CLASSIC
MORE SUBDUED TONE.
>> SPIRITUAL. ♪
>>JOY PURDY: WITH HIS FATHER AT THE HELM MISSIONS UNION ARE VISITED OTHER BLACK CHURCHES IN
NORTHERN
AMERICAN CITIES AND FOUND WHAT
WOULD BECOME A NEW STYLE OF
MUSIC BACK.
>> AND IN MANY OF YOUR BLACK
CHURCHES YOU HAD.
>> CALLED IN RESPONSE, WHAT IS
CALLED DOCK TO WATCH IN IN THE
BLACK CHURCH WHERE THE DEACON
WOULD SING
A LIE.
>> AND THEN YOU REPEATED WITH
THE HIRING OF DIFFERENT TYPES
OF MUSICIANS BRINGING WITH THEM
DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES. >> THAT THE CAPTIVE SIGNATURE STYLE THE PIPE OR CANE, BUT THE
MUSIC MORE.
IT IS A FOOT STOMPING AND
CLAPPING
♪
CLAPPING ♪ SOUND RIGHT, NICE.
ABOUT MUSIC.
>> OUR MUSIC IS FIRST HOW TOMORROW SPIRIT. SO IT’S NOT JUST A MATTER. IT’S A
MATTER OF WEEKS.
>>JOY PURDY: IF YOU’VE NEVER EXPERIENCED MUSIC IN THE BLACK CHURCH ON NEWSFOURJAX DOT COM
WE’RE WORKING
TO POST PERSONAL STORIES ONLINE
HOW THAT EXPERIENCE HAS TOUCHED
SOME OF OUR AREA’S MOST WELL
KNOWN FACES LIKE DUVAL SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDENT DOCTOR
DIANA GREENE JAGUARS OFFENSIVE
LINEMAN JAWAAN TAYLOR, THEY AND
OTHERS SHARED
WITH ME THEIR REFLECTIONS OF
HOW THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO THE
MUSIC AND HOW YEARS LATER,
THEY STILL TURN TO IT FOR
COMFORT AND STRENGTH THAT WILL
BE ONLINE LATER TONIGHT ON OUR