Blues and Gospel Music

Informationen zum Autor Allan Moore is Head of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Surrey! UK. He has written widely on popular music and is author of The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Cambridge University Press 1997)! and Rock: The Primary Text (1993). Klappentext An overview of blues and gospel music as an expression of twentieth-century black US experience. Zusammenfassung From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin! Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker! blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the mythology of twentieth-century culture. This book provides an overview of both blues and gospel music! which together provide an expression of twentieth-century black US experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Surveying the field: our knowledge of blues and gospel music Allan Moore; 2. Labels: identifying categories of blues and gospel Jeff Todd Titon; 3. The development of the blues David Evans; 4. The development of gospel music Don Cusic; 5. Twelve key recordings Graeme Boone; 6. 'Black twice': performance conditions for blues and gospel artists Steve Tracy; 7. Vocal expression in the blues and gospel Barb Jungr; 8. The guitar Matt Backer; 9. Keyboard techniques Adrian York; 10. Imagery in the lyrics Guido van Rijn; 11. Appropriations of blues and gospel in popular music Dave Headlam.

Product details

• Authors: Allan Moore
• Assisted by: Jonathan Cross (Editor), Allan Moore (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2003
• EAN: 9780521001076
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00107-6
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 250 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Music; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Music; Cambridge companion
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music