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UNINA9910811736003321 |
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Autore |
Jackson Jerma A |
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Titolo |
Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age / / Jerma A. Jackson |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908781-4-4 |
0-8078-6361-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gospel music - History and criticism |
African Americans - Music - History and criticism |
Popular music - Social aspects - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-184) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Restraint or exuberance : music and religion after Reconstruction -- I just do what the Lord say : gospel as women's missionary work -- Choirs, studios, and unions : the grassroots campaign for gospel -- With her spirituals in swing : Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel, and popular culture -- Between religion and commerce : gospel in the postwar era. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers and demonstrating the important role women played in popularizing gospel. |
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