Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190634902ISBN-10:190634901UPC:9780190634902Book Category:Music, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & StylesBook Topic:JazzSize:9.20 x 6.50 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.9511Product ID:SC31KSJ7C8
Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field
Nearly a half century after her death in 1972, Mahalia Jackson remains the most esteemed figure in black gospel music history. Born in the backstreets of New Orleans in 1911, Jackson during the Great Depression joined the Great Migration to Chicago, where she became an highly regarded church singer and, by the mid-fifties, a coveted recording artist for Apollo and Columbia Records, lauded as the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190634902ISBN-10:190634901UPC:9780190634902Book Category:Music, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & StylesBook Topic:JazzSize:9.20 x 6.50 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.9511Product ID:SC31KSJ7C8
Mark Burford is Associate Professor of Music at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he is also chair of the American Studies program. His research and teaching focuses on twentieth-century popular music in the United States, with particular focus on African American music after World War II, and late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Austro-German concert music.
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