Mahalia Jackson

Author : Nina Nolan
Publisher : Amistad
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0060879440

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Mahalia Jackson by Nina Nolan Pdf

Accompanied by John Holyfield's gorgeous illustrations, debut author Nina Nolan's narrative wonderfully captures the amazing story of how Mahalia Jackson became the Queen of Gospel in this fascinating picture book biography. Even as a young girl, Mahalia Jackson loved gospel music. Life was difficult for Mahalia growing up, but singing gospel always lifted her spirits and made her feel special. She soon realized that her powerful voice stirred everyone around her, and she wanted to share that with the world. Although she was met with hardships along the way, Mahalia never gave up on her dreams. Mahalia's extraordinary journey eventually took her to the historic March on Washington, where she sang to thousands and inspired them to find their own voices. With a timeline and further reading section, this book is perfect for Common Core.

Author : Mark Burford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : African American gospel singers
ISBN : 9780190634902

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Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field by Mark Burford Pdf

Nearly a half century after her death in 1972, Mahalia Jackson remains the most esteemed figure in black gospel music history. Born in the backstreets of New Orleans in 1911, Jackson during the Great Depression joined the Great Migration to Chicago, where she became an highly regarded church singer and, by the mid-fifties, a coveted recording artist for Apollo and Columbia Records, lauded as the "World's Greatest Gospel Singer." This "Louisiana Cinderella" narrative of Jackson's career during the decade following World War II carried important meanings for African Americans, though it remains a story half told. Jackson was gospel's first multi-mediated artist, with a nationally broadcast radio program, a Chicago-based television show, and early recordings that introduced straight-out-of-the-church black gospel to American and European audiences while also tapping the vogue for religious pop in the early Cold War. In some ways, Jackson's successes made her an exceptional case, though she is perhaps best understood as part of broader developments in the black gospel field. Built upon foundations laid by pioneering Chicago organizers in the 1930s, black gospel singing, with Jackson as its most visible representative, began to circulate in novel ways as a form of popular culture in the 1940s and 1950s, its practitioners accruing prestige not only through devout integrity but also from their charismatic artistry, public recognition, and pop-cultural cachet. These years also saw shifting strategies in the black freedom struggle that gave new cultural-political significance to African American vernacular culture. The first book on Jackson in 25 years, Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field draws on a trove of previously unexamined archival sources that illuminate Jackson's childhood in New Orleans and her negotiation of parallel careers as a singing Baptist evangelist and a mass media entertainer, documenting the unfolding material and symbolic influence of Jackson and black gospel music in postwar American society.

Author : Laurraine Goreau
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Gospel musicians
ISBN : 145560688X

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Just Mahalia, Baby by Laurraine Goreau Pdf

Here is "the real book" of the incredible Mahalia Jackson, as pledged to her by her close friend, Laurraine Goreau, before her death. Rich in poetic condensation and vivid imagery, it reaches back to recreate an era and a way of life that no longer exist; it surfaces hidden folk lore and cultural patterns; it delves into Voodoo and a secret psychic world. It shows you jazz at its roots when it was "jass", the Devil's temptation; first-hand, it gives you the surprising sociological significances of the whole gospel movement ... but most of all, it takes you with a misshapen mote on a forgotten scrap of river-land as Mahalia pushes, fights, sings her way to a personage of unique stature among Americans to th eworld's peoples, revered by hundreds of thousands as a symbol of utter integrity, the bearer of God's tidings.

Author : Evelyn Witter
Publisher : Mott Media (MI)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0880620455

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Mahalia Jackson by Evelyn Witter Pdf

A biography of the renowned gospel singer who hoped, through her art, to break down some of the barriers between black and white people.

Author : Montrew Dunham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1882859383

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Mahalia Jackson by Montrew Dunham Pdf

Originally published: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1974.

Author : Mark Burford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190461669

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The Mahalia Jackson Reader by Mark Burford Pdf

Born in New Orleans before migrating to Chicago, Mahalia Jackson (1911-72) is undoubtedly the most widely known black gospel singer, having achieved fame among African American communities in the 1940s then finding a wide audience among non-black U.S. and international audiences after she signed with major label Columbia Records in 1954. The newest entry in OUP's celebrated Readers on American Musicians series,ÂThe Mahalia Jackson ReaderÂplaces Jackson's musical performances and their reception against key changes in 20th-century America, changes that include transformations of the recorded music industry, the increasing visibility of the civil rights movement, a florescence of Cold War-era religiosity, and an explosion of popularity of black gospel music itself. Jackson's career combines parallel tracks as a black church singer and as a national pop celebrity, and makes her one of the most complex and important black artists of the postwar decades. Gospel is a particularly challenging genre to study because of the paucity of sources. BecauseÂof Jackson's celebrity, there is more substantial coverage of her life and work than other gospel artists, but Jackson scholarship is still largely dependent on trade biographies from the 1970s for source material. For this reader, Mark Burford has gone beyond the standard biographies and has drawn from extensive archival research, including in the volume interview transcripts and the largely-untouched papers of Jackson's associate Bill Russell, who kept a journal tracking Jackson's activities from 1951 to 1955. The new sources - in particular Russell's notes - uniquely enable an assessment of the reciprocal relationship between the two careers Jackson pursued, essentially simultaneously: as an in-demand church singer in Chicago, and as a media star for a major network and recording label.

Author : Darlene Donloe
Publisher : Holloway House Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870675850

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Mahalia Jackson by Darlene Donloe Pdf

Gospel Singer.

Author : Barbara Kramer
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African American gospel singers
ISBN : 0766021157

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Mahalia Jackson by Barbara Kramer Pdf

A biography of the renowned gospel singer who hoped that her art would further the cause of civil rights for African Americans.

Author : Roy Wood Sellars
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0876950055

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Social Patterns and Political Horizons by Roy Wood Sellars Pdf

Author : Barry Wittenstein
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823443741

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A Place to Land by Barry Wittenstein Pdf

As a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and the movement that it galvanized. Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Master List Much has been written about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington. But there's little on his legendary speech and how he came to write it. Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if the hardest part of preaching was knowing where to begin. No, he said. The hardest part is knowing where to end. "It's terrible to be circling up there without a place to land." Finding this place to land was what Martin Luther King, Jr. struggled with, alongside advisors and fellow speech writers, in the Willard Hotel the night before the March on Washington, where he gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. But those famous words were never intended to be heard on that day, not even written down for that day, not even once. Barry Wittenstein teams up with legendary illustrator Jerry Pinkney to tell the story of how, against all odds, Martin found his place to land. An ALA Notable Children's Book A Capitol Choices Noteworthy Title Nominated for an NAACP Image Award A Bank Street Best Book of the Year A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People A Booklist Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase

Author : Emily J. Lordi
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813562513

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Black Resonance by Emily J. Lordi Pdf

Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women’s singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith’s blues and Richard Wright’s neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson’s gospel music and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers. The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, Black Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century’s most beloved and challenging voices.

Author : Robert M. Marovich
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252097089

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A City Called Heaven by Robert M. Marovich Pdf

In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago. Marovich follows gospel music from early hymns and camp meetings through the Great Migration that brought it to Chicago. In time, the music grew into the sanctified soundtrack of the city's mainline black Protestant churches. In addition to drawing on print media and ephemera, Marovich mines hours of interviews with nearly fifty artists, ministers, and historians--as well as discussions with relatives and friends of past gospel pioneers--to recover many forgotten singers, musicians, songwriters, and industry leaders. He also examines how a lack of economic opportunity bred an entrepreneurial spirit that fueled gospel music's rise to popularity and opened a gate to social mobility for a number of its practitioners. As Marovich shows, gospel music expressed a yearning for freedom from earthly pains, racial prejudice, and life's hardships. In the end, it proved to be a sound too mighty and too joyous for even church walls to hold.

Author : Charles Marsh,Peter Slade,Sarah Azaransky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190630720

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Lived Theology by Charles Marsh,Peter Slade,Sarah Azaransky Pdf

"Written as a two-year collaboration of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia, this volume offers a series of illustrations and styles that distinguish Lived Theology in the broader conversation with other major approaches to the religious interpretation of embodied life."--Jacket.

Author : Tom Stolz
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 057362626X

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Mahalia by Tom Stolz Pdf

Characters: 1 male, 2 female Simple set Including music by various gospel composers as well as hymns and spirituals made famous by Mahalia Jackson, this is a joyous celebration of the life and music of the world's greatest gospel singer: a humble, deeply religious woman whose expressive, full throated voice carried her from a three room shanty in New Orleans to appearances before presidents and royalty. The joy and inspiration of her heartfelt songs provide a counterpoint to the urgent messages delivered by her friend, Martin Luther King. Standing at his side, Mahalia Jackson became the musical voice of the civil rights movement. Mahalia uses simple staging, only three actors, and piano and organ accompaniments to showcase 22 great gospel numbers in a moving, often humorous musical tribute. "A first rate tour of the throbbing world of gospel music." Minneapolis Star Tribune. "Superb in every way." Christian Chronicle. "A rare joy, a balm for the spirit. This is not a night in the theatre but a soul cleansing experience. Don't miss it!" Sun Newspapers.

Author : Alan Jackson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781458452269

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Alan Jackson - Precious Memories (Songbook) by Alan Jackson Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This songbook includes all 15 songs from the 2006 release, Jackson's first ever gospel album. Songs: Blessed Assurance * How Great Thou Art * I'll Fly Away * In the Garden * The Old Rugged Cross * Softly and Tenderly * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * and more.