Preaching on Wax : The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion /
From 1925 to 1941, approximately one hundred African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Columbia, Paramount, Victor-RCA to record and sell their sermons on wax. While white clerics of the era, such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Fuller, became religious entreprene...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Religion, Race, and Ethnicity ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Author's note
- Introduction: Phonograph religion
- 1. "The machine which talks!": the phonograph in American life and culture
- 2. "Ragtime music, ragtime morals": race records and the problem of amusement
- 3. Selling to the souls of black folk: the commodification of African American sermons
- 4. Apostles of modernity: phonograph religion and the roots of popular black religious broadcasting
- 5. A new preacher for a new negro: phonograph religion and the new black social authority
- 6. "Say good-bye to chain stores!": recorded sermons and protest
- Conclusion: Let the record play! communication and continuity in African American religion and culture
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author