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Formerly the publications editor for UCLA's Center for African American Studies, Toyomi is currently a marketing communications consultant who lives and works.

Toyomi Igus has had a rich and varied writing and communications career.

My firm, Igus Simon & Associates, provides strategic communications and marketing consulting for health care, nonprofit, and social cause organizations.

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Clap Your Hands Educator's Guide: A Celebration of Gospel

July 2, 2020

This book shares the history of black gospel music. It includes a timeline of important events that influenced the creation of gospel music from the year 1485 to the present. Gospel music has always emanated from the hardships that African Americans and Black Americans have faced.

Interspersed with the timeline of events are beautiful poems and rich cultural illustrations depicting times of suffering and joy. You will read about Harriet Tubman, Richard Allen, minister of the first independent black denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mahalia, The Little Rock 9, The Fisk Jubilee Singers, the Azusa Street Revival led by Pastor Seymour, Louis Armstrong, Thomas Dorsey, the Winans family, The Tuskegee Institute and the Tuskegee Airmen, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mary McLeod Bethune, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sam Cooke and more recent urban gospel and rap artists such as Kirk Franklin, Mandisa, Le

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I See the Rhythm of Gospel

By Toyomi Igus

ZONDERVAN

Chapter One

I see the rhythm of Plantation Sundays.

Shhhhh!Quietly we walk past the fields we worked all week and into the forest just beyond the creek. Master's going to church and so are we, but quietly, quietly. Then we are clear-no one around. Only us to hear. Mama hums, low and strong. Eyes closed, we hum along. Feet shuffle, arms wave, and voices lift our spirits higher and higher. Quiet no more, we clap our hands, and stomp our feet "Glory!" she says and "Glory!" we repeat and repeatpeatpeat as our souls fill with song and rise to greet the heavens, the one place where we belong.

Although slaves were not allowed to form their own churches in the South, they found ways to worship. They would gather in hidden clearings in the woods or in the secret "praise houses" on the plantations on Sundays. Because drums were outlawed, they used their hands and fee

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I See the Rhythm of Gospel

November 19, 2014

A delightful treat awaits those who opens the book inom See the Rhythm of Gospel. A perfect blend of art, poetry, fine-story telling, African American history, and the birth of gospel music, Toyomi Igus picture book will utbilda and entertain both children and adults.

The flip of each page presents readers with vivid paintings that illustrate the aspect of history being told. For example, Plantation Sundays, a time of worship for slaves, who sneaked to clearings in the wood to worship God after the master goes to church. The painting shows slaves, hands raised in beröm, performing a ring shout—dancing in a circle while singing spirituals.

Historical events of African-American history, along with the date these events occurred are sprinkled throughout the book.

The birth of gospel music arises from the pain and injustice of slavery. The author explores the various styles of gospel music: Pentecostal style, blues and jazz rhythms blend