A City Called Heaven Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music - Music in American Life

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.

ISBN:	9780252080692
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Published date:	03 Mar 2015
DEWEY:	782.2540977311
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	x, 441 , 24 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	820g
Height:	235mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	30mm

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