Protest and Praise Sacred Music of Black Religion

Name: Protest and Praise Sacred Music of Black Religion
Price: 5.7 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780800624040

ISBN-10: 0800624041

ISBN-13: 9780800624040

Edition: 1990

Authors: Jon M. Spencer

List price: $22.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $5.70

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Here is a skillful tracing of two tracks in the evolution of musical genres that have evolved from black religion. Songs of protest developed from the spiritual through social-gospel hymnody to culminate in songs of the civil-rights movement and the blues. Born in rebellion, they envision the Kingdom of God. Songs of praise, by contrast, express adoration. Beginning with the "ring-shout," Spencer follows the history of intoned declamation through the tongue song, Holiness-Pentecostal music, and the chanted sermon of the black preacher. Spencer's approach, termed theomusicology, unlocks the wealth of African-American sacred music with a theological key. The result is a fascinating account of…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 2/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.45" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

JON MICHAEL SPENCER is Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Richmond.