In this Book
- A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Music in American Life
summary
In A City Called Heaven, Robert M. Marovich follows gospel music from early hymns and camp meetings through its growth into the sanctified soundtrack of the city's mainline black Protestant churches. Marovich mines print media, ephemera, and hours of interviews with artists, ministers, and historians--as well as relatives and friends of gospel pioneers--to recover forgotten singers, musicians, songwriters, and industry leaders. He also examines the entrepreneurial spirit that fueled gospel music's rise to popularity and granted social mobility to a number of its practitioners. As Marovich shows, the music expressed a yearning for freedom from earthly pains, racial prejudice, and life's hardships. Yet it also helped give voice to a people--and lift a nation.
A City Called Heaven celebrates a sound too mighty and too joyous for even church walls to hold.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- Part One: Roots
- Part Two: Branches
- 9. Sing a Gospel Song: The 1940s, Part One
- pp. 149-166
- 13. The Gospel Caravan: Midcentury Melodies
- pp. 229-259
- Bibliography
- pp. 389-400
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252097089
Related ISBN(s)
9780252039102, 9780252080692
MARC Record
OCLC
905544011
Pages
488
Launched on MUSE
2015-04-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015