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Mixed Traditions: Looking At Developing Community Through Music At St. Patrick’s Catholic Church

Kinnaman, Gracie
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Catholic Church—Music, African Americans—Religion, Civil rights movements—Religious aspects—Catholic Church, Church music—United States—African American influences, Memphis (Tenn.)—Church history
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Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies
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The idea of tradition in a loaded concept within Catholicism that is heavily defined and applied to Catholic practices. Although, after the conclusions of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, these ideas have been shifting and what is created within certain Catholic Churches is a unique community and shared tradition. St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Memphis, TN is one of these churches. It is a community that has been influenced by its involvement with the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike as well as the systemic racism that runs throughout Memphis and has since focused on providing for the surrounding neighborhoods physically and spiritually in a radical way. This paper will analyze how these influences have impacted this community through looking at the music practices, interviews with parishioners, and writings from the church’s archives detailing the community’s history.
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This document was received from the Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies and uploaded to Dlynx by Rosie Meindl during fall 2025.