A city called heaven : Chicago and the birth of gospel music
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- ISBN: 9780252080692
- ISBN: 0252080696
- ISBN: 9780252039102
- ISBN: 0252039106
- ISBN: 9780252039102
- ISBN: 9780252097089
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x, 441 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-399) and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1. Roots. Got on my traveling shoes: black sacred music and the great migration -- "When the fire fell": the sanctified church contribution to Chicago gospel music -- Sacred music in transition: Charles Henry Pace and the Pace Jubilee Singers -- Turn your radio on: Chicago sacred radio broadcast pioneers -- "Someday, somewhere": the formation of the gospel nexus -- Sweeping through the city: Thomas A. Dorsey and the gospel nexus (1932-1933) -- Across this land and country: new songs for a new era (1933-1939) -- From Birmingham to Chicago: the great migration of the gospel quartet -- part 2. Branches. Sing a gospel song: the 1940s, part one -- "If it's in music -- we have it": the fertile crescent of gospel music publishing -- "Move on up a little higher": the 1940s, part two -- Postwar gospel quartets: "rock stars of religious music" -- The gospel caravan: midcentury melodies -- "He could just put a song on his fingers": second-generation gospel choirs -- "God's got a television": gospel music comes to the living room -- "Tell it like it is": songs of social significance -- One of these mornings: Chicago gospel at the crossroads -- Appendix A. 1920s African American sacred music recordings made in Chicago -- Appendix B. African American sacred music recordings made in Chicago, 1930-1941. |
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Subject: | Gospel music Illinois Chicago History |
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Kirtland Community College Library | ML 3187 .M37 2015 | 30775305536097 | General Collection | Available | - |