--- Now playing: Jah Lloyd - Knife And Fork
"In Western formal choral tradition, there's an aim for a blend so you cannot distinguish where the parts are coming from. With congregational singing, I could drive up to the church and they could be singing and I could tell you who was there, because the individual timbres of a voice never disappear. That congregational style is one of the things I think is important for democracy - the individual does not have to disappear, and it does not operate as an anticollective expression."
-- Berice Johnson Reagon, singer/scholar
