When Sunday comes : gospel music in the soul and hip-hop eras / Claudrena N. Harold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harold, Claudrena N., author.

Series:

Music in American life.

Illinois scholarship online.

Music in American life

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gospel music--20th century--History and criticism.

Gospel music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource x, 251 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2020]

Summary:

Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music. Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, theological tensions, and political assertions that transformed the music, and revisits the debates within the community over groundbreaking recordings and gospel's incorporation of rhythm and blues, funk, hip-hop, and other popular forms.

Contents:

Lord let me be an instrument: the artistry and cultural politics of Reverend James Cleveland

A special kind of witness: Andraé Crouch, the growth of contemporary Christian music, and the politics of race 2

Hold my mule: Shirley Caesar and the gospel of the new South

A wonderful change: Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive Explosion

Higher plane: the gospel according to Al Green

The only thing right left in a wrong world: the Clark Sisters, the Winans, Commissioned, and the search for cultural authority in the 1980s

If I be lifted: Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Singers

Through it all: Vanessa Bell Armstrong and the perils of crossover

Hold up the light: the crossover success of BeBe and CeCe Winans

Outside the county line: the Southern soul of John P. Kee

We are the drum: Take 6, the sounds of Blackness, and the new Black aesthetic

Epilogue. Do you want a revolution? Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and the beginning of a new era in gospel music.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 10, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252043574

025204357X

OCLC:

1161996268