Gospel Sound Good News and Bad Times

Name: Gospel Sound Good News and Bad Times
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ISBN: 9780879100346

ISBN-10: 0879100346

ISBN-13: 9780879100346

Edition: 25th (Revised)

Authors: Anthony Heilbut

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Description:

This book relays the complete history of gospel music, paying special attention to the relationship between gospel and other African American musical forms in America such as jazz and RandB. It discusses specific gospel music singers as well as the world of the gospel church itself. Includes black-and-white photos.

Book details

List price: $20.00
Edition: 25th
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 7/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: The Gospel Moment


"Sallie Martin's Outta Sight"


"I Get These Special Vibrations": Thomas A. Dorsey


The Head of the House: Ira Tucker


Mahalia the Queen


"The Women Had Fits": The Soul Stirrers


Reverend Brewster and the Ward Singers


Reverend Julius Cheeks and Reverend Claude Jeter: The Fathers of Soul


"Bessie Can Moan and Move a Mountain"


Professor Alex Bradford: "The Singing Rage"


"I Won't Let Go of My Faith": Dorothy Love Coates


The Holiness Church


The Traveling Saints


The Crown Prince of Gospel: James Cleveland


"I've Been Way Out on the Stormy Raging Sea": Marion Williams


The Young Singers


"You May Never Go to Prison"


"Turn Your Radio On", 1969


A Weekend with the Campbells


Epilogue: "Looked Down the Line and I Wondered" (1971)


Postscript


Postscript II (1997)


Acknowledgments


Discography


Index of Names


Index of Names II


Index of Song Titles