The Rise of Gospel Blues
The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. 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 1920s as a pianist, composer, and arranger for prominent blues singes including Ma Rainey. In the 1930s he became involved in Chicago's African-American, old-line Prot…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-535811-7
- EAN: 9780195358117
- Produktnummer: 13900274
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 17'669 KB
- Abbildungen: 9 illus., 24 music examples
Über den Autor
Michael W. Harris is Associate Professor of History and African-American World Studies at the University of Iowa.
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