More Than Precious Memories Paperback / softback
by Michael Graves, David Fillingim
Paperback / softback
Description
More than Precious Memories is the first book of its kind--a collection of essays offering scholarly analysis and interpretation of Southern Gospel Music.
Believing Southern Gospel Music to be a significant cultural and religious phenomenon worthy of the best efforts of scholarship, Grayes and Fillingim have assembled a diverse group of scholars who apply a variety of methods and theories to the task of understanding Southern Gospel Music and its cultural context.
These scholars and approaches include the following.- Scott Tucker, looks at the theme of "heaven" in six of the Gaither Homecoming songbooks- David Fillingim looks at how Southern Gospel Music answers the question of theodicy from the perspective of the rural white, working class- Robert M.
McManus explores selected song lyrics to show how Southern- Gospel Music helps construct the identity of the community compared to Contemporary Christian Music- Darlene R.
Graves identifies key sustaining personality strengths of women that tend to preserve consistency between their public performance and personal spiritual walk- Elizabeth F.
Desnoyers Colas and Stephanie Howard (Asabi) explore Southern Gospel and Black Gospel music through the influence of Thomas A.
Dorsey- Michael Graves examines how the culture of Southern Gospel Music deals with its inevitable prodigal sons- Raymond D.S. Anderson analyzes the Gaither Homecoming videos as examples of the postmodern turn in American popular Christian culture- John D.
Keeler presents the first audience study of Southern Gospel Music employing a "Uses and Gratifications" research framework- Paul A.
Creasman examines the ways Southern Gospel Musicas a culture memorializes its dead by use of the Internet- Naaman Wood reviews significant scholarly approaches to the study of popular music.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, colour illustrations
- Publisher:Mercer University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2004
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- ISBN:9780865549555
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, colour illustrations
- Publisher:Mercer University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780865549555