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A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music

A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music

Marovich, Robert M.

Paperback

Series: Music in American Life

Music Instruction: GeneralGospelMusic Reference

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ISBN10: 0252080696
ISBN13: 9780252080692
Publisher: Univ Of Illinois Pr
Published: Mar 3 2015
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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