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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460412003321

Autore

Montell William Lynwood <1931->

Titolo

Singing the glory down : amateur gospel music in South Central Kentucky, 1900-1990 / / William Lynwood Montell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

0-8131-5731-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

782.25/09769/6

Soggetti

Gospel music - Kentucky - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Shape-Note Era; 2. The Singing Convention Movement; 3. Shape-Notes and Early Gospel Quartets; 4. The Transition Years; 5. The Beginnings of a New Era; 6. Present Times; 7. Walking Straighter and Narrower; 8. Singing the Glory Down; 9. Singing Families; Conclusion; Appendix A: South Central Kentucky Singing Groups; Appendix B: South Central Kentucky Shape-Note Teachers; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Singing the Glory Down, William Lynwood Montell contributes to a fuller understanding of twentieth-century American culture by examining the complex relationships between gospel music and the culture of the nineteen-county study area in which this music has flourished for a hundred years. He has recorded the memories and feelings of those who were young while the movement gathered steam and who remember it at its high point, and stories about those who have passed over that river about which they loved to sing.In the early 1900's, a singing school or gospel convention was a major social