Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.
Contents:
Do You Want a Revolution? : Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and the Beginning of a New Era in Gospel Music. Special Kind of Witness : Andraé Crouch, the Growth of Contemporary Christian Music, and the Politics of Race -- Hold My Mule : Shirley Caesar and the Gospel of the New South -- Wonderful Change : Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive Explosion -- Higher Plane : The Gospel According to Al Green -- 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.
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. At the same time, she details how sociopolitical and cultural developments like the Black Power Movement and the emergence of the Christian Right shaped both the art and attitudes of African American performers. Weaving insightful analysis into a collective biography of gospel icons, When Sunday Comes explores the music's essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves-- Provided by publisher
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