[Cambridge Companions to Music 01] • The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music
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- Authors
- Moore, Allan
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Tags
- music , religion
- ISBN
- 9780521806350
- Date
- 2003-03-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.85 MB
- Lang
- en
From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists play significant roles in twentieth-century culture. This overview of these genres provides an expression of the twentieth-century black American experience. Histories are questioned; songs and lyrical imagery are analyzed; perspectives are presented from the standpoint of voice, guitar, piano, and working musician. A concluding chapter discusses the impact that the genres have had on mainstream musical culture.