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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777050303321

Autore

Harris Michael W

Titolo

The rise of gospel blues [[electronic resource] ] : the music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the urban church / / Michael W. Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1994, c1992

ISBN

0-19-771588-5

0-19-987988-5

0-19-028947-3

0-19-802285-9

1-280-52754-4

0-19-535811-2

1-4294-0597-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (630 p.)

Disciplina

782.25

Soggetti

Gospel music - History and criticism

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 (p. 273-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Music Examples; Introduction; 1 Religion and Blackness in Rural Georgia: 1899-1908; 2 Music, Literacy, and Society in Atlanta: 1910-1916; 3 Blues-From "Lowdown" to "Jass": 1921-1923; 4 Blues-From "Jass" to "Lowdown": 1924-1928; 5 Old-Line Religion and Musicians: 1920-1930; 6 Old-Line Religion and Urban Migrants: 1920-1930; 7 Preachers and Bluesmen: 1928-1931; 8 The Emergence of Gospel Blues: 1931-1932; 9 Giving the Gospel a Blues Voice: 1932; 10 A Place for Gospel Blues in Old-Line Religion: 1932-1937

Notes Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization in the late 1800's. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as Michael W. Harris's history of gospel blues reveals. Tracing the rise of gospel blues as seen through the career of its founding figure, Thomas Andrew Dorsey, Harris tells the story of the most prominent person in the advent of gospel blues. Also known as ""Georgia Tom,"" Dorsey had considerable



success in the 1920's as a pianist, composer, and arranger for prominent blues singes including Ma Rainey. In the 1930's he became