Aerosmith - Crash

Unlike what happened in black religious communities, where glossolalia (meaningless speech during ecstasy), falling into a trance and fainting were indispensable stages on the path to ecstasy, everything went on in white Pentecostals not so violently and spectacularly. Perhaps it was in this that the African Americans and the "white rabble" farthest apart from each other in the South, split in two by racial segregation; whites considered collective hysteria in the churches of blacks a sign of vulgarity and lack of dignity, blasphemous sacralization of sensuality. This feeling reinforced the feeling of superiority: the white poor saw in her puritanism the triumph of the spirit over the flesh. Therefore, the musical accompaniment, which is very important on both sides of the racial border, was more restrained for White: they preferred simple harmony and measured rhythm,while the Negro gospel, infinitely complex in rhythmic terms, drew its strength from the riot of melism and collective excitement.