How sweet the sound
the golden age of gospel
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Author
Publication
1995 - Elliott & Clark, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL933341M
- Internet Archivehowsweetsoundgol00boye
- ISBN-101880216191
- ISBN-139781880216194
- LibraryThing668007
Classifications
- DDC782.25/4/09
- LCCML3187 .B7 1995
Alternate Titles
- Golden age of gospel
Description
In How Sweet the Sound, music historian Horace Clarence Boyer charts gospel's emergence as a discrete musical style in the early 1900s. He details its heyday in the years from 1945 to 1955 and describes its development through the 1960s, when the soulful strains of the once-churchbound music could be heard in the finest concert halls in the country. A gospel singer himself, Boyer brings added insight to the story of this indigenous American art form and the people who created it. He explains the various styles and stages of the music, and refers to more than a hundred of gospel's finest, from Thomas A. Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson to the Soul Stirrers and Aretha Franklin. Rare performance photographs and backstage studies by Lloyd Yearwood illustrate Boyer's text. --From publisher's description.
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