Great God a'mighty! the Dixie Hummingbirds : celebrating the rise of soul gospel music / Jerry Zolten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zolten, J. Jerome, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gospel musicians--United States--Biography.

Gospel musicians.

Dixie Hummingbirds.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the Jim Crow world of 1920's Greenville, South Carolina, to Greenwich Village's Cafe Society in the '40's, to their 1974 Grammy-winning collaboration on ""Loves Me Like a Rock,"" the Dixie Hummingbirds have been one of gospel's most durable and inspiring groups. Now, Jerry Zolten tells the Hummingbirds' fascinating story and with it the story of a changing music industry and a changing nation. When James Davis and his high-school friends starting singing together in a rural South Carolina church they could not have foreseen the road that was about to unfold before them. They began a ten-yea

Contents:

A wheel in a wheel, 'way up in the middle of the air (1916-1928)

I just got on my travelin' shoes (1928-1938)

Ain't gonna study war no more (1939-1942)

Twelve gates to the city (1943-1944)

Move on up a little higher (1945-1949)

My record will be there (1950-1951)

Let's go out to the programs (1952-1959)

Loves me like a rock (1960-1976)

Who are we? (1977 and beyond).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [338]-346) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-028830-2

0-19-534845-1

0-19-530332-6

1-60256-820-0

1-280-50191-X

OCLC:

814456486