Blood of Jesus Ransomed Me, The

DESCRIPTION: "The blood of Jesus ransomed me, He paid the price and set me free, Every where I go I want the world to know, The blood of Jesus ransomed me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1981 (JamaicaFaithWorkPlay)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus | blood
FOUND IN: West Indies(Jamaica)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Melvyn Lloyd Butler, _Songs of Pentecost: Experiencing Music, Transendence, and Identity in Jamaica and Haiti_ (Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University, 2005) #40 p. 420, "The Blood of Jesus Ransomed Me"
RECORDINGS:
Revival Zion pastor and congregation, "The Blood of Jesus" (on JamaicaFaithWorkPlay)
NOTES [145 words]: Butler has "The Blood of Jesus Ransomed Me" as a hymn of Haitian Pentacostals.
The JamaicaFaithWorkPlay track begins like a "shout," with harmonies, fast beat, clapping and drums, but maintains the same tone and pace through out the four minutes of repetition of the one verse, though the drumming varies wiithout speeding up. In his liner notes to JamaicaFaithWorkPlay Roberts describes the track as a "chorus" "sung (as is usual) to drumming of European provenance but African flair." It would have helped if Roberts, either in his liner notes or in Black Music of Two Worlds -- (New York: Original Music, 1972) -- where he does analyze musical roots of Caribbean music (Black Music of Two Worlds, pp. 93-128) -- had explained the European roots he hears in the drumming on this track or in Jamaican music (see Black Music of Two Worlds, pp. 119-133) generally. - BS
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