عنوان

Then sings my soul :

(Number (ISBN

0252036972

(Number (ISBN

0252078578

(Number (ISBN

9780252036972

(Number (ISBN

9780252078576

Erroneous ISBN

0252094093

Erroneous ISBN

9780252094095

Number

b411167

Title Proper

Then sings my soul :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the culture of southern gospel music /

First Statement of Responsibility

Douglas Harrison.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Urbana :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Illinois Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2012.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 228 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

Music in American life

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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 southern gospel -- 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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Text of Note

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 southern gospel as a network of interconnected messages that evangelical Christians use to make individual sense of both Protestant theological doctrines and their own lived experiences. Harrison explores how listeners and consumers of southern gospel integrate its lyrics and music into their own religious experience, building up individual--and potentially subversive--meanings beneath a surface of evangelical consensus. Reassessing the contributions of such figures as Aldine Kieffer, James D. Vaughan, and Bill and Gloria Gaither, Then Sings My Soul traces an alternative history of southern gospel in the twentieth century, one that emphasizes the music's interaction with broader shifts in American life beyond the narrow confines of southern gospel's borders. Harrison's discussion includes the "gay-gospel paradox"--The experience of non-heterosexuals in gospel music--as emblematic of fundamentalism's conflict with the postmodern world [Publisher description].

Gospel music-- Southern States-- History and criticism.

Popular culture-- Religious aspects.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Harrison, Douglas,1975-

Date of Transaction

20160516093538.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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