J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Spirit Forms of Africa

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J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Spirit Forms of Africa is written by Licia Clifton-James and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527580016 (ISBN 10) and 9781527580015 (ISBN 13).

Providing an excellent example of why folk artists can be appreciated as carriers of knowledge, even if they are unaware of it, this book could change the ways we understand and appreciate American folk arts. Connecting a sharecropper from Georgia in the Southern United States to a protector and healer in Touba, Senegal, West Africa, the holy city of Mouridism, and the final resting place of its founder, Shaikh Ahmadou Bàmba Mbàcke, it makes an interesting link while examining the cultural aspects of two very different and yet similar paths of life. Historians and art historians alike will find this investigation of African American art and folk culture both interesting and insightful. Not only does this book trace the characteristics of art through the African Diaspora, but it also traces Islam through those same diasporic transportations of colonial exploration and slavery.