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RealAudio: Bill Steber 
 
Real Music:
Tent revival preaching 

Field recording by Bill Steber

 
Tent Revival, Rehoboth Church of 
God in Christ, Clarksdale, MS, 1994 
 
As music and dance reach a crescendo during a summer tent revival service in Clarksdale, MS, a worshipper known as "Mother Brown" is overtaken by the spirit and lies on the ground in ecstatic revelry. Such displays of faith and emotion are common in Pentecostal denominations in the South, where worshippers become overtaken, or baptized, in the Holy Spirit, often engaging in glossalalia, or speaking in tongues, as external evidence of their holy possession. Conversely, many of the church faithful in Mississippi believe that to devote one's life to playing the blues is to sell your soul to the devil.
 
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