REVIVALISM
Done By:
Trishana Aarons
Antonett Hayman
Jermaine Cummings
The Tradition Folk Form Revivalism
• Revival is a religious ritual
resulting from an Afro-European
syncretism - the mixing of
African and European cultures. It
has two main branches, Zionism
and Pocomania.
Two branches of Revivalism
• Revivalism is characterized by
major forms:
Revival Zion
Pocomania
Revival Symbols
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Welcoming symbols
Setting Symbol
Warding Symbols
Nature’s healing symbols
Entertaining symbols
What is Pocomania?
• Pocomania, sometimes referred to as
Revivalism, is more than 200 years
old in Jamaica. This is an African
form of religion with elements of
other religious traditions.
Social Settings
In Pocomania the feasting table is
usually held on Sunday nights. The
table is spread with fruits, drinks,
bread, candles and vegetable.
Religious Aspect of Pocomania
• Pocomania worship revolves around
music and spirit possession. In
addition, the worship service
combines moral teaching, singing,
and movements invoking the spirits
to enter the ceremony.
Dress
• Typically, members of the Pocomania
meeting are dressed in white robes,
heads wrapped in blue, red, white, or
green colors, as they chant and move
to the rhythm of drums and
tambourines.
Dance
• An essential part of the Pocomania meeting or
worship , is an African inspired dance
“tramping”.
• This is accompanied by the playing of cymbals
or tambourines.
• Tramping occurs after the singing has become
intense and the percussive element has reached
a peak.
Cont’d
• The members of the Pocomania group move
around in a circle, counterclockwise, each
using forward-stepping motions with a forward
bend of the body.
Revivalism Dance
Pictures of Pocomania Dance!!
Instrument
• Kettle-drums or bass drums
• Tambourines
Tambourine
• Tambourine is a percussion
instrument resembling a shallow
drum with metal discs in slots around
the edge, played by being shaken or
hit with the hand.
Kettle Drum
• Kettle drum is a percussion
instrument of definite pitch,
consisting of a hollow bowl-like
hemisphere covered with a skin or
membrane, supported on a tripod or
stand.
Parish Practiced in!!
• Revival Churches can be found all over
Jamaica, particularly in the deep rural areas
and in the inner-city sections of the corporate
area. On specific dates, towards the end of
each quarter within the year, revivalists may
be seen journeying to Watt Town, St. Ann.
This is one of the most popular revival
meeting places.
Revival Zion
What is Revival Zion?
• Zion is a grouped that is branch off
from revivalism, it was developed in
the 1860 in Jamaica.
Religious Aspect
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Belief in one god
Herbal Medicines
Spiritual Possession
Derived from Myalism
Cont’d
• Zion is a Christian oriented folk
form. The leader of the Zion group
can be either a man or woman. The
man is referred to as “Captain” while
the woman is called the
“Mother/Madda”.
Instrument
• The revival Zion used the voice as a musical
instrument, which takes on a percussion like
sound. The same goes for the stomping of
feet and the clapping of their hands.
Parish Practiced in!!
• Revival Zion were located in Western
and South-Western parts of Kingston
with small groups in the rural areas
like St. Thomas.
References