More Than Precious Memories: The Rhetoric of Southern Gospel MusicMichael P. Graves, David Fillingim Mercer University Press, 2004 - 310 pàgines 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. |
Continguts
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Southern Gospel Music vs Contemporary Christian Music Competing For the Soul of Evangelicalism | 57 |
When Mama Prayed An Exploration of Matriarchal Mentorship in Southern Gospel Families | 89 |
Bridge over Troubled Gospel Waters The CrossCultural Appeal of Thomas A Dorseys Signature Songs | 131 |
The Gaither Homecoming Videos and the Ceremonial Reinstatement of Southern Gospel Music Performers | 153 |
Evolving Rivers of Joy Postmodernity and American Christian Culture | 183 |
The Music Is Our Lives Why Audiences Are in Love with Southern Gospel Music | 199 |
Southern Gospel and Its Home in Cyberspace | 233 |
Polyphonic Movements in Criticism Notes toward a Future Direction of SGM Criticism | 271 |
A Flight from Liminality Home in Country and Gospel Music | 287 |
List of Contributors | 297 |
Index | 301 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 38 - ON Jordan's stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie.
Pàgina 37 - Life is like a mountain railroad, with an engineer that's brave; We must make the run successful, from the cradle to the grave; Watch the curves, the fills, the tunnels ; never falter, never quail ; Keep your hand upon the throttle, and your eye upon the rail.
Pàgina 30 - This World is not My Home to the accompaniment of a guitar and a banjo. This world is not my home. I'm just a passin' through My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue The angels beckon me from heaven's open door And I can't feel at home in this world anymore.
Pàgina 29 - O they tell me of a home far away. O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise; O they tell me of an unclouded day.
Pàgina 41 - If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark on Earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven.