[lbo-talk] Warming by the Devil's Fire (was Jobs in religion, was Marxism and Religion)

[Dennis Claxton]

This is from Charles Burnett, who made a great 
movie called Killer of Sheep and who directed 
Warming by the Devil's Fire, an installment of 
Scorcese's blues documentary on pbs.  I saw 
Killer of Sheep at UCLA a couple years ago. It's an amazing document:


>Historically, there's a complex, even 
>antagonistic, relationship between the blues ­ 
>the devil's music, Satan's music ­ and the 
>church in the black community...... This 
>relationship between the sacred and the profane 
>is the theme of Warming by the Devil's Fire. It 
>tells the story of a young kid going back to 
>Mississippi before he's twelve to get baptized. 
>To get saved. But then he's kidnapped by his 
>uncle Buddy ­ a blues person ­ who takes him 
>around to experience what he's gonna be saved 
>from. At the end, his other uncle, a preacher 
>named Flem, finds him and puts him on the road 
>to the mourner's bench. And years later, Uncle 
>Buddy also ends up becoming a preacher.

full at:

http://www.pbs.org/theblues/aboutfilms/burnettinterview.html

http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue05/features/black2.htm