People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music - Couverture rigide

Darden, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0826414362 ISBN 13 : 9780826414366

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2004

Synopsis

People Get Ready!: A New History of Gospel Music is a passionate, celebratory, and carefully researched chronology of one of America's greatest treasures. From Africa through the spirituals, from minstrel music through jubilee, and from traditional to contemporary gospel, People Get Ready! shows the links between styles, social patterns, and artists. The emphasis is on the stories behind the songs and musicians: the stories that helped to create the incomparable art form. From the nameless slaves of Colonial America to Donnie McClurkin, Yolanda Adams and Kirk Franklin, People Get Ready! provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of this musical genre. In addition to the more familiar stories of Thomas A. Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson, the book offers intriguing new insights into the often forgotten era between the Civil War and the rise of jubilee - that most intriguing blend of minstrel music, barbershop harmonies, and the spiritual. Also chronicled are the connections between some of gospel's precursors (Blind Willie Johnson, Arizona Dranes and Sister Rosetta Tharpe) and modern gospel stars, including Andrae Crouch and Clare Ward. Robert Darden knits together a number of narratives, and combines history, musicology and spirituality into a coherent whole, stitched together by the stories of dozens of famous and forgotten musical geniuses.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Darden is Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University, and Senior Editor of The Door magazine. He was gospel music editor for Billboard magazine for 10 years and he has written about religious music for most of his adult life. He lives in Waco.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826414362
• ISBN 13: 9780826414366
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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