Then Sings My Soul : The Culture of Southern Gospel Music /

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In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than seeing the music as a single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly sacrifice, Harrison presents so...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Harrison, Douglas, 1975-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Popular culture > Religious aspects.
Gospel music.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
MUSIC > Religious > Gospel.
Culture populaire > Aspect religieux.
Gospel > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire et critique.
Gospel music > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : A native informant's report from the field
  • Glory bumps, or the psychodynamics of the southern gospel experience
  • Nostalgia, modernity, and the reconstruction roots of a tradition
  • The rise of "southern" gospel music and the compensations of history
  • The gaitherization of contemporary southern gospel
  • Southern gospel in the key of queer
  • Epilogue : the soul's best song
  • List of songs referenced
  • Appendix : methods and preliminary findings of a survey of attitudes and beliefs about southern gospel music.

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