A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music by Robert M. Marovich
By Robert M. Marovich
Marovich follows gospel tune from early hymns and camp conferences during the nice Migration that introduced it to Chicago. In time, the tune grew into the sanctified soundtrack of the city's mainline black Protestant church buildings. as well as drawing on print media and ephemera, Marovich mines hours of interviews with approximately fifty artists, ministers, and historians--as good as discussions with kin and pals of previous gospel pioneers--to recuperate many forgotten singers, musicians, songwriters, and leaders. He additionally examines how a scarcity of financial chance bred an entrepreneurial spirit that fueled gospel music's upward push to attractiveness and opened a gate to social mobility for a few its practitioners. As Marovich indicates, gospel tune expressed a longing for freedom from earthly pains, racial prejudice, and life's hardships. in any case, it proved to be a legitimate too effective and too joyous for even church partitions to hold.
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