Spirit Work, Hoodoo & Black Southern Cosmologies: Conjure, Pentecost, and the Blues

Jack Dappa Blues Radio Live – Sunday Night EditionEpisode: Spirit Work, Hoodoo & Black Southern Cosmologies: Conjure, Pentecost, and the BluesIn this deeply spiritual and culturally rich episode, Jack Dappa Blues Radio Live explores the sacred intersections of Blues music, Hoodoo, Black Southern Pentecostalism, and Afro-Indigenous folk beliefs. Host and folklorist Lamont Jack Pearley guides listeners through a journey of ancestral memory, ritual practice, and the spiritual systems encoded in the Blues.We honor the life and work of the late Freeman Vines and his haunting “hanging tree guitars,” examine texts like Black Magic by Yvonne P. Chireau, Mojo Workin’ by Katrina Hazzard-Donald, and Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South by Tony Kail, and spotlight the special Hoodoo Heritage digital issue of The African American Folklorist, curated by Hess Love.This episode isn’t just a conversation—it’s a revival of memory, a ritual of sound, and a space for cultural reclamation.🔗 Sign up for upcoming We The Blues People events and master classes:

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Spirit Work, Hoodoo & Black Southern Cosmologies: Conjure, Pentecost, and the Blues is an episode from Jack Dappa Blues Podcast by Jack Dappa Blues.

This episode is 01:25:53 long.

This episode was published on Apr 9, 2025.

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