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The Gospel Sound

Anthony Heilbut

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Description:"Child, I've had my singing days. I'm not talking about making money. I'm talking about singing to express myself. You know that's a blessing." These words by Marion Williams, one of the great gospel singers, define both her art and this book. The Gospel Sound is a blessing - a brilliant, witty, sympathetic, definitive and moving portrait of the gospel singers, their music and their way of life. Like Studs Terkel's Hard Times, The Gospel Sound illuminates a moment, a spirit, a culture, often in the words of the singers themselves as they travel the long, hard "gospel highway," poorly paid, cheater children of the Depression South who as adults are all too familiar with the horrors of ghetto life, with murder, brutality, he wasting of human lives and the all-embracing constraints of poverty and discrimination, but who express their faith in the most powerful, moving and least-known music America has produced. Gospel is more than music: it is one of the central experiences of Black America, a common heritage whose vitality was a means of survival in a hostile world and whose style gave birth to blues, jazz and rock. Tony Heilbut has shared and studied the gospel life, and his portraits of its major figures - Mahalia Jackson, Sallie Martin, Thomas A. Dorsey, James Cleveland, Dorothy Love Coates, Sam Cooke, Bessie Griffin, the Dixie Hummingbirds, Clara Ward and many others - make his book a unique and important literary event. But more than this, The Gospel Sound re-creates with stunning accuracy and strength the deepest feelings and experiences of one part of the American soul.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Gospel Sound. To get started finding The Gospel Sound, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 376

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release: 1971

ISBN: FxmfAAAAMAAJ

Description: "Child, I've had my singing days. I'm not talking about making money. I'm talking about singing to express myself. You know that's a blessing." These words by Marion Williams, one of the great gospel singers, define both her art and this book. The Gospel Sound is a blessing - a brilliant, witty, sympathetic, definitive and moving portrait of the gospel singers, their music and their way of life. Like Studs Terkel's Hard Times, The Gospel Sound illuminates a moment, a spirit, a culture, often in the words of the singers themselves as they travel the long, hard "gospel highway," poorly paid, cheater children of the Depression South who as adults are all too familiar with the horrors of ghetto life, with murder, brutality, he wasting of human lives and the all-embracing constraints of poverty and discrimination, but who express their faith in the most powerful, moving and least-known music America has produced. Gospel is more than music: it is one of the central experiences of Black America, a common heritage whose vitality was a means of survival in a hostile world and whose style gave birth to blues, jazz and rock. Tony Heilbut has shared and studied the gospel life, and his portraits of its major figures - Mahalia Jackson, Sallie Martin, Thomas A. Dorsey, James Cleveland, Dorothy Love Coates, Sam Cooke, Bessie Griffin, the Dixie Hummingbirds, Clara Ward and many others - make his book a unique and important literary event. But more than this, The Gospel Sound re-creates with stunning accuracy and strength the deepest feelings and experiences of one part of the American soul.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Gospel Sound. To get started finding The Gospel Sound, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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