Download or read book The Evolution of African American Worship From Music Ministry to Music Industry as Pursued by the Independent Gospel Artist From the Thomas Dorsey written by Antonia Arnold-McFarland and published by Eflat Major Productions. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of African American Worship is the original manuscript that disserts and documents the doctoral research of Dr. Antonia Arnold-McFarland. As a church music director, she realized a need to bring urgent attention to the concerns affecting the African American Worship Experience of the Black Church Tradition. For this demographic, the worship space, regardless of place, has always been critical to pivotal change in their social climate. To inspire hope and to change the outlook, this research takes a current day and relatable look at the problems faced by the independent gospel artist who, as a Christian disciple, is charged to exalt God and to evangelize to the world. This must be done while balancing demands of the music industry that often conflict against the Christian faith. At the same time, in the local church, the pastor and music ministry leadership must maintain an effective worship experience, heavily influenced by the controversial music industry. They are faced with a series of operational and spiritual challenges, alongside the demands to stay relevant and knowledgeable in the selection of appropriate music.In order to address these dynamics, Dr. Antonia Arnold-McFarland began advocating change as a music clinician and seeking solutions ten years prior to enrolling in the doctoral program. The academic undergirding enabled her to enhance her knowledge and to think critically, as she took an ethnomusicological approach. The emphasis is on the Thomas Dorsey to Kirk Franklin Era yet looks historically from 1619-2015 at key contributors and artists to the Black Sacred music artform. The research leverages the work of world-renown scholars in African American Worship and Church Music. It expands upon their research by including key historical parallels and social conditions. It also quantifies trends in the evolving acceptance for various types of Black Sacred music, as gospel music styles emerged. Her 2018 debut book, Moving Forward and Facing the Future, is an excerpt of the manuscript and a practical guide specifically for use in the music and worship arts ministry of The Black Church. It takes the research up to 2017. After its release and due to the request for copies, "Dr. Toni" realized a need to go back and make easily accessible the full manuscript of The Evolution of African American Worship. It will support ongoing scholastic research and ministerial needs.
Download or read book The Evolution of Gospel Music written by BBC Active and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas A Dorsey Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview written by Robert L. Taylor and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Thomas Andrew Dorsey's telephone number was given to the writer of this newly released book by the name Thomas A. Dorsey, Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview by a directory assistance operator in Chicago, Illinois. The writer, at the time (1975), took a chance and called, not expecting the first publisher of black gospel music to answer the phone. A very hoarse voice said "Hello," and the writer recognized it immediately as being the voice he had heard on a recording about gospel music that Mr. Dorsey had done. After being asked if he would consent to being interviewed, Mr. Dorsey unenthusiastically said yes. He was unenthusiastic, the writer later discovered, because fortune hunters and status seekers had been plaguing him for interviews. Honored that Mr. Dorsey had said yes, the writer took a train from Kansas City, Missouri, to Chicago to interview this man who had written hundreds of songs.
Download or read book Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview written by Robert L. Taylor and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Thomas Andrew Dorsey's telephone number was given to the writer of this newly released book by the name, Thomas A. Dorsey, Father of Black Gospel Music An Interview, by a directory assistance operator in Chicago, Illinois. The writer, at the time, (1975) took a chance and called, not expecting the first publisher of Black Gospel Music, to answer the phone. A very hoarse voice said "Hello," and the writer recognized it immediately as being the voice he had heard on a recording about Gospel Music that Mr. Dorsey had done. After being asked if he would consent to being interviewed Mr. Dorsey unenthusiastically said yes. He was unenthusiastic the writer later discovered, because fortune hunters and status seekers had been plaguing him for interviews. Honored that Mr. Dorsey had said yes, the writer took a train from Kansas City, Missouri to Chicago, to interview this man who had written hundreds of songs.
Download or read book The Gospel Music Industry written by III Thomas a. Dorsey and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Living the Life I Sing: Gospel Music from the Dorsey Era to the Millennium discusses the foundations of gospel music and how the form has developed across time to create a genre that reaches far beyond its geographical borders. In addition, it addresses the future of the genre and considers its place in the general music industry. Section One explores the development of Gospel music, including its transition from the secular path of the blues to a path of sacred spirituality. Section Two focuses on the rise and role of the Black church in spreading Gospel music. Topics include the development of a Gospel methodology, the resistance of the Black press to "swinging" spirituals, the promise of and challenges to contemporary Gospel, and the value of live recording. Living the Life I Sing compiles an outstanding selection of resources to chronicle Gospel music from its blues-based foundation to its role in the lives of a post-millennial generation. The book is well-suited to courses on African-American music, those on the music business, religious music, and African-American history. It can also be used in music workshops. Alphonso Simpson, Jr. is the director of African American studies in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Wyoming, where he studied curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in African American music and music education. His current research interests include African American music, Black male/female relationships, the retention rate of Black males in post-secondary education, and the African American religious experience. Thomas A. Dorsey III is principal attorney in the Dorsey Law Office in Springfield, Illinois. He is the public relations director of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Inc. and founder of the Thomas A. Dorsey Project to preserve and promote the legacy of the Father of Gospel Music."
Download or read book Singing in My Soul written by Jerma A. Jackson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating the important role women played in popularizing gospel. Female gospel singers initially developed their musical abilities in churches where gospel prevailed as a mode of worship. Few, however, stayed exclusively in the religious realm. As recordings and sheet music pushed gospel into the commercial arena, gospel began to develop a life beyond the church, spreading first among a broad spectrum of African Americans and then to white middle-class audiences. Retail outlets, recording companies, and booking agencies turned gospel into big business, and local church singers emerged as national and international celebrities. Amid these changes, the music acquired increasing significance as a source of black identity. These successes, however, generated fierce controversy. As gospel gained public visibility and broad commercial appeal, debates broke out over the meaning of the music and its message, raising questions about the virtues of commercialism and material values, the contours of racial identity, and the nature of the sacred. Jackson engages these debates to explore how race, faith, and identity became central questions in twentieth-century African American life.
Download or read book The Ministry of Music in the Black Church written by J. Wendell Mapson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapson's objective is to help today's pastor take the leadership in improving the worship experience through the use of music that meets the biblical norm and serves theology as a legitimate response to God.
Download or read book Thomas A Dorsey s Influence on African American Worship written by George Lee (Perry) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SACRED SONG SURVIVAL SALVATION IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE written by Kathryn Baker Kemp and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enslaved Africans brought their music and religion with them to America. They adapted their spiritual worldview into the existing Christian framework for survival. The God of the oppressor was transformed into the God of liberation and justice. Salvation became the conduit for survival. Sacred song was embedded with African spirituality and African American theology to create a religious experience from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century that sustained African American people and became established forms of praise and worship. The Civil Rights movement changed the religious reality of African American people. Sacred song in the twenty- first century has many challenges. Will the legacy and heritage of sacred song survive?
Download or read book Black Gospel written by Broughton, Viv and published by Blandford. This book was released on 1985 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the birth of spirituals in the extraordinary collision of cultures that took place as English hymn met African shout within the terrible confines of slavery. It follows the music as it first sustained the black churches, as it evolved into gospel during the Depression, as it became the original soul music of America and as it blossomed into the digitally-recorded performing art it is today.
Download or read book Woke Me Up This Morning written by Alan Young and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-09-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creators and Context. Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented group of comics creators changed the American comic industry forever by introducing adult sensibilities and aesthetics into popular genres such as superhero comics and the newspaper strip. Frank Millers Batman The Dark Knight Returns 1986 and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbonss Watchmen 1987 in particular revolutionized the genre. During this same period, underground and alternative genres began to garner critical acclaim and media attention, as best represented by Art Spiegelmans Maus. The Rise of the American Comics Artist is an insightful volume surveying the
Download or read book The History of Gospel Music written by Rose Blue and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of gospel music, from its roots in Africa to the present day.
Download or read book More Than Precious Memories written by Michael P. Graves and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than Precious Memories is the first book of its kind--a collection of essays offering scholarly analysis and interpretation of Southern Gospel Music. Believing Southern Gospel Music to be a significant cultural and religious phenomenon worthy of the best efforts of scholarship, Grayes and Fillingim have assembled a diverse group of scholars who apply a variety of methods and theories to the task of understanding Southern Gospel Music and its cultural context. These scholars and approaches include the following. - Scott Tucker, looks at the theme of "heaven" in six of the Gaither Homecoming songbooks - David Fillingim looks at how Southern Gospel Music answers the question of theodicy from the perspective of the rural white, working class - Robert M. McManus explores selected song lyrics to show how Southern - Gospel Music helps construct the identity of the community compared to Contemporary Christian Music - Darlene R. Graves identifies key sustaining personality strengths of women that tend to preserve consistency between their public performance and personal spiritual walk - Elizabeth F. Desnoyers Colas and Stephanie Howard (Asabi) explore Southern Gospel and Black Gospel music through the influence of Thomas A. Dorsey - Michael Graves examines how the culture of Southern Gospel Music deals with its inevitable prodigal sons - Raymond D.S. Anderson analyzes the Gaither Homecoming videos as examples of the postmodern turn in American popular Christian culture - John D. Keeler presents the first audience study of Southern Gospel Music employing a "Uses and Gratifications" research framework - Paul A. Creasman examines the ways Southern Gospel Musicas a culture memorializes its dead by use of the Internet - Naaman Wood reviews significant scholarly approaches to the study of popular music.
Download or read book Protest Praise written by Jon Michael Spencer and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a skillful tracing of two tracks in the evolution of musical genres that have evolved from black religion. Songs of protest developed from the spiritual through social-gospel hymnody to culminate in songs of the civil-rights movement and the blues. Born in rebellion, they envision the Kingdom of God.Songs of praise, by contrast, express adoration. Beginning with the "ring-shout," Spencer follows the history of intoned declamation through the tongue song, Holiness-Pentecostal music, and the chanted sermon of the black preacher. Spencer's approach, termed theomusicology, unlocks the wealth of African-American sacred music with a theological key. The result is a fascinating account of a people's struggle with God in history.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Gospel written by Horace Clarence Boyer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of gospel music in the United States. This book traces the development of gospel from its earliest beginnings through the Golden Age (1945-55) and into the 1960s when gospel entered the concert hall. It introduces dozens of the genre's gifted contributors, from Thomas A Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson to the Soul Stirrers.
Download or read book Voices of Black Folk written by Terri Brinegar and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the late 1920s, Reverend A. W. Nix (1880-1949), an African American Baptist minister born in Texas, made fifty-four commercial recordings of his sermons on phonographs in Chicago. On these recordings, Nix presented vocal traditions and styles long associated with the southern, rural Black church as he preached about self-help, racial uplift, thrift, and Christian values. As southerners like Nix fled into cities in the North to escape the rampant racism in the South, they contested whether or not African American vocal styles of singing and preaching that had emerged during the slavery era were appropriate for uplifting the race. Specific vocal characteristics, like those on Nix's recordings, were linked to the image of the "Old Negro" by many African American leaders who favored adopting Europeanized vocal characteristics and musical repertoires into African American churches in order to uplift the modern "New Negro" citizen. Through interviews with family members, musical analyses of the sounds on Nix's recordings, and examination of historical documents and relevant scholarship, Terri Brinegar argues that the development of the phonograph in the 1920s afforded preachers like Nix the opportunity to present traditional Black vocal styles of the southern Black church as modern Black voices. These vocal styles also influenced musical styles. The "moaning voice" used by Nix and other ministers was a direct connection to the "blues moan" employed by many blues singers including Blind Willie, Blind Lemon, and Ma Rainey. Both Reverend A. W. Nix and his brother, W. M. Nix, were an influence on the "Father of Gospel Music," Thomas A. Dorsey. The success of Nix's recorded sermons demonstrates the enduring values African Americans placed on traditional vocal practices"--
Download or read book Make a Joyful Noise a Brief History of Gospel Music Ministry in America written by Kathryn B. Kemp and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of gospel music ministry in America from pre-slavery to the beginning of the 21st century and the impact of the Gospel Music Workshop of America on the genre
