Sunday Morning Spiritual with the McIntosh County Shouters! “The southeastern ring shout is probably the oldest surviving African American performance tradition on the North American continent. It continues to be performed in a Black community in McIntosh County on Georgia’s coast. This compelling fusion of counterclockwise dancelike movement, call-and-response singing, and percussion (in the form of hand clapping and a stick beating a drumlike rhythm on a wooden floor) is clearly African in its