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Then sings my soul the culture of southern gospel music
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In this work on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison re-examines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Harrison explores how listeners and consumers ...
In this work on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison re-examines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Harrison explores how listeners and consumers of southern gospel integrate its lyrics and music into their own religious experience.
Details
- Creator
- Douglas Harrison
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780252094095, 0252036972, 9781283993555, 1283993554, 0252094093, 0252078578, 9780252036972, 9780252078576
- OCLC
- ocn826684864, ocn923496818
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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 a tradition -- 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