Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel

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UNC Press Books, 2002 - 394 Seiten
Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Close Harmony traces the development of the music known as southern gospel from its antebellum origins to its twentieth-century emergence as a vibrant musical industry driven by the world of radio, television,
 

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THE BOOM YEARS GOSPEL MUSIC PROMOTERS THE ALLNIGHT SINGS
155
Nashville Tennessee September 281992 and Durham North Carolina August 121996
197
THE GOLDEN AGE CHALLENGE UNCONVENTIONAL GROUPS AND SONGWRITERS
199
THE WORLD OF SOUTHERN GOSPEL
217
Live Oak Florida June 151996
219
QUARTETS THE NATIONAL EXPANSION OF GOSPEL MUSIC
221
Belfast North Carolina December 241960 and Louisville Kentucky September 251998
260
THE EMERGENCE OF SOUTHERN GOSPEL
262

CONCLUSION
281
NOTES
287
INDEX
377
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Seite 301 - Timothy P. Weber, Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism. 1875-1982 (rev.
Seite 292 - Sydney E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972); a more compact account is by Winthrop S.
Seite 288 - Musical Million': a Study and Analysis of the Periodical Promoting Music Reading through Shape-notes in North America from 1870 to ¡914 (diss..
Seite 287 - A Brief History of White Southern Gospel Music and a Study of Selected Amateur Family Gospel Singing Groups in Rural Georgia
Seite 358 - The Sound of Light: A History of Gospel Music (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990), p. 86. 10Melva Wilson Costen, African American Christian Worship (Nashville: Abingdon, 1993), p. 98. "John E. Brandon, "Worship in the Black Experience," in The Black Christian Worship Experience, ed.
Seite 292 - Ronald G. Walters, American Reformers, 1815-1860 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978); and Clifford S. Griffin, Their Brothers' Keepers: Moral Stewardship in the United States, 1800-1865 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1960).
Seite 37 - Haven attorney) in 1782: ... at present I have no Inclination for anything, for I am almost sick of the World & were it not for the Hopes of going to singing-meeting tonight & indulging myself a little in some of the carnal Delights of the Flesh, such as kissing, squeezing &c. &c. I should willingly leave it now, before 10 o'clock & exchange it for a better.
Seite 342 - Pentecostalism and Popular Culture in the South: A Study of Four Musicians," Journal of Popular Culture 16, no.
Seite 363 - Marshall Frady, Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness (Boston: Little Brown, 1979...

Autoren-Profil (2002)

James R. Goff Jr. is professor of history at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He also serves as the chief historical consultant for the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and is a regular columnist for Singing News magazine.

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