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In
Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds, author Jerry Zolten portrays one of the most influential gospel groups of the 20th century, from 1920s South Carolina to 1940s New York, through the Civil Rights era and beyond.
List of contents
- Foreword by Dom Flemons
- Introduction
- 1. "A Wheel in a Wheel, 'Way Up in the Middle of the Air" (1916-1928)
- 2. "I Just Got On My Travelin' Shoes" (1929-1938)
- 3. "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" (1939-1942)
- 4. "Twelve Gates to the City" (1943-1944)
- 5. "Move On Up a Little Higher" (1945-1949)
- 6. "My Record Will Be There" (1950-1951)
- 7. "Let's Go Out to the Programs" (1952-1959)
- 8. "Loves Me Like a Rock" (1960-1976)
- 9. "Who Are We?" (1977 and Into a New Century)
- 10. Afterword: "I'll Keep On Living After I Die" (2003 and Beyond)
- Discography
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Jerry Zolten, Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences and Integrative Arts at The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, is an educator, author, music and film producer, and screen and broadcast narrator. He writes extensively about American roots and vernacular music as both communication about culture and as an influence on contemporary pop music.
Zolten's association with The Dixie Hummingbirds began during the late 1980s, initially as a producer of concert and festival appearances, then later as a chronicler of the group's history, culminating in the First Edition of Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music (2003).
Zolten contributed liner notes for the Grammy-winning two-volume The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volumes 1 & 2 from Jack White's Third Man Records. He is also a principle on-screen narrator in the film The Ballad of the Dreadnought, and co-producer and principle narrator of the documentary film
How They Got Over: Gospel Quartets and the Road to Rock 'n' Roll.
Summary
In Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds, author Jerry Zolten portrays one of the most influential gospel groups of the 20th century, from 1920s South Carolina to 1940s New York, through the Civil Rights era and beyond.
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All this is to say that those who read Great God A'Mighty in 2003 or sometime thereafter will want to pick up the second edition to absorb the new information, new images, updated discography, continuation of the Dixie Hummingbirds story, and how that story has become richer because of twenty-plus years of renewed interest in traditional gospel music.
