Author : Bernice Johnson Reagon
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025293914
We'll Understand It Better By and By by Bernice Johnson Reagon Pdf
Worship traditions and contemporary music. The volume opens with an overview of gospel music in African American social history, including the migrations to and consolidation of various urban communities. Six following sections each focus on a pivotal figure in the history of gospel: Charles Albert Tindley, the first prominent gospel hymn composer; Lucie Eddie Campbell, who was influential in setting the standards for performance of religious music in the African.