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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 408
- Publication Date
- 2022-07-15
- Book Title
- Great God A'Mighty! the Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise
- Edition Number
- 2
- ISBN
- 9780190071493
- Subject Area
- Music
- Publication Name
- Great God A'mighty! the Dixie Hummingbirds : Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 6.3 in
- Subject
- Religious / Gospel
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 23.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 408 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190071494
ISBN-13
9780190071493
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6057253381
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
408 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Great God A'mighty! the Dixie Hummingbirds : Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Religious / Gospel
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
23.3 Oz
Item Length
6.3 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Zolten fluently unfolds this story, with its sundry subplots and themes. His descriptions of music are evocative, and he neither minimizes nor exaggerates the gospel world's fierce moral and showbiz competitiveness. He shows how, like all the top-flight gospel quartets, the Birds drilled on staging and presentation as well as music.... He makes a case that The Dixie Hummingbirds were exemplars and conveyors of cultural and musical change."--New York Times Book Review "This intriguing, fast-moving history is highly recommended for anyone interested in music, social history, gospel, or the American experience."--Library Journal "In this excellent history, Zolten carefully and lovingly details the almost 75-year history of the Hummingbirds, from their start in the Depression to their induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2000. This is a fine exploration of an important style and era in the history of American popular music and culture."--Publishers Weekly "A fabulously entertaining story of the Birds--and it's all here: the 1928 organization, 1938 addition of Ira Tucker, name changes in the early 1940s, Café Society in 1942, collaboration with Angelic Gospel Singers in 1950, Go Out of the Program in 1953, the Apollo Theatre in 1956, Newport Festivals in 1966 and 1972, Loves Me Like a Rock in 1973, and full-fledged concerts into the 1990s. This is an extraordinary and welcomed addition to African American gospel music history."--Horace Clarence Boyer, author of The Golden Age of Gospel, "Zolten fluently unfolds this story, with its sundry subplots and themes. His descriptions of music are evocative, and he neither minimizes nor exaggerates the gospel world's fierce moral and showbiz competitiveness. He shows how, like all the top-flight gospel quartets, the Birds drilled on staging and presentation as well as music.... He makes a case that The Dixie Hummingbirds were exemplars and conveyors of cultural and musical change."--New York Times Book Review "This intriguing, fast-moving history is highly recommended for anyone interested in music, social history, gospel, or the American experience."--Library Journal "In this excellent history, Zolten carefully and lovingly details the almost 75-year history of the Hummingbirds, from their start in the Depression to their induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2000. This is a fine exploration of an important style and era in the history of American popular music and culture."--Publishers Weekly "A fabulously entertaining story of the Birds--and it's all here: the 1928 organization, 1938 addition of Ira Tucker, name changes in the early 1940s, Café Society in 1942, collaboration with Angelic Gospel Singers in 1950, Go Out of the Program in 1953, the Apollo Theatre in 1956, Newport Festivals in 1966 and 1972, Loves Me Like a Rock in 1973, and full-fledged concerts into the 1990s. This is an extraordinary and welcomed addition to African American gospel music history."--Horace Clarence Boyer, author of The Golden Age of Gospel "Zolten fluently unfolds this story, with its sundry subplots and themes. His descriptions of music are evocative, and he neither minimizes nor exaggerates the gospel world's fierce moral and showbiz competitiveness. He shows how, like all the top-flight gospel quartets, the Birds drilled on staging and presentation as well as music.... He makes a case that The Dixie Hummingbirds were exemplars and conveyors of cultural and musical change."--New York Times Book Review "This intriguing, fast-moving history is highly recommended for anyone interested in music, social history, gospel, or the American experience."--Library Journal "In this excellent history, Zolten carefully and lovingly details the almost 75-year history of the Hummingbirds, from their start in the Depression to their induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2000. This is a fine exploration of an important style and era in the history of American popular music and culture."--Publishers Weekly "The 'Birds' story is also the story of black entertainment slowly entering the American pop-cultural mainstream.... Welcome this book with its generous discography to the pop-music shelves."--Booklist "A fabulously entertaining story of the Birds--and it's all here: the 1928 organization, 1938 addition of Ira Tucker, name changes in the early 1940s, Café Society in 1942, collaboration with Angelic Gospel Singers in 1950, Go Out of the Program in 1953, the Apollo Theatre in 1956, Newport Festivals in 1966 and 1972, Loves Me Like a Rock in 1973, and full-fledged concerts into the 1990s. This is an extraordinary and welcomed addition to African American gospel music history."--Horace Clarence Boyer, author of The Golden Age of Gospel "All this is to say that those who read Great God A'Mighty in 2003 or sometime thereafter will want to pick up the second edition to absorb the new information, new images, updated discography, continuation of the Dixie Hummingbirds story, and how that story has become richer because of twenty-plus years of renewed interest in traditional gospel music." -- Robert M. Marovich, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal, "Zolten fluently unfolds this story, with its sundry subplots and themes. His descriptions of music are evocative, and he neither minimizes nor exaggerates the gospel world's fierce moral and showbiz competitiveness. He shows how, like all the top-flight gospel quartets, the Birds drilled on staging and presentation as well as music.... He makes a case that The Dixie Hummingbirds were exemplars and conveyors of cultural and musical change."--New York Times Book Review"This intriguing, fast-moving history is highly recommended for anyone interested in music, social history, gospel, or the American experience."--Library Journal"In this excellent history, Zolten carefully and lovingly details the almost 75-year history of the Hummingbirds, from their start in the Depression to their induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2000. This is a fine exploration of an important style and era in the history of American popular music and culture."--Publishers Weekly"A fabulously entertaining story of the Birds--and it's all here: the 1928 organization, 1938 addition of Ira Tucker, name changes in the early 1940s, Café Society in 1942, collaboration with Angelic Gospel Singers in 1950, Go Out of the Program in 1953, the Apollo Theatre in 1956, Newport Festivals in 1966 and 1972, Loves Me Like a Rock in 1973, and full-fledged concerts into the 1990s. This is an extraordinary and welcomed addition to African American gospel music history."--Horace Clarence Boyer, author of The Golden Age of Gospel"All this is to say that those who read Great God A'Mighty in 2003 or sometime thereafter will want to pick up the second edition to absorb the new information, new images, updated discography, continuation of the Dixie Hummingbirds story, and how that story has become richer because of twenty-plus years of renewed interest in traditional gospel music." -- Robert M. Marovich, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
782.2540922
Table Of Content
Foreword by Dom Flemons Introduction 1. "A Wheel in a Wheel, 'Way Up in the Middle of the Air" (1916-1928) 2. "I Just Got On My Travelin' Shoes" (1929-1938) 3. "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" (1939-1942) 4. "Twelve Gates to the City" (1943-1944) 5. "Move On Up a Little Higher" (1945-1949) 6. "My Record Will Be There" (1950-1951) 7. "Let's Go Out to the Programs" (1952-1959) 8. "Loves Me Like a Rock" (1960-1976) 9. "Who Are We?" (1977 and Into a New Century) 10. Afterword: "I'll Keep On Living After I Die" (2003 and Beyond) Discography Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The venerable Dixie Hummingbirds stand at the top of the black gospel music pantheon as artists who not only significantly shaped that genre but, in the process, also profoundly influenced emerging American pop music genres from Rhythm & Blues and Doo-Wop to Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, and Hip-Hop. Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds shows how, in a career spanning more than nine decades, they pointed the way from pure a cappella harmony to guitar-driven soul to pop-stardom crossover, collaborating with artists like Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon along the way. Drawing on interviews with founding and quintessential members as well as many of the pop luminaries influenced by the Hummingbirds, author Jerry Zolten tells their story from rising up and out of the segregated South in the twenties and thirties to success on Philadelphia radio and the New York City stage in the forties to grueling tours in the fifties and over the long haul a brilliant recording career that carried well over into the 21st century. The story of the Dixie Hummingbirds is a tale of determined young men who navigated the troubled waters of racial division and the cutthroat business of music on the strength of raw talent, vision, character, and perseverance, and made an indelible name for themselves in American cultural history. This heavily edited 2nd edition features brand new photographs, expanded historical context, and a full new chapter on the Hummigbirds' trajectory up to the 21st century., The venerable Dixie Hummingbirds stand at the top of the black gospel music pantheon as artists who not only significantly shaped that genre but, in the process, also profoundly influenced emerging American pop music genres from Rhythm and Blues and Doo-Wop to Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, and Hip-Hop. Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds shows how, in a career spanning more than nine decades, they pointed the way from pure a cappella harmony to guitar-driven soul to pop-stardom crossover, collaborating with artists like Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon along the way. Drawing on interviews with founding and quintessential members as well as many of the pop luminaries influenced by the Hummingbirds, author Jerry Zolten tells their story from rising up and out of the segregated South in the twenties and thirties to success on Philadelphia radio and the New York City stage in the forties to grueling tours in the fifties and over the long haul a brilliant recording career that carried well over into the 21st century. The story of the Dixie Hummingbirds is a tale of determined young men who navigated the troubled waters of racial division and the cutthroat business of music on the strength of raw talent, vision, character, and perseverance, and made an indelible name for themselves in American cultural history. This heavily edited 2nd edition features brand new photographs, expanded historical context, and a full new chapter on the Hummigbirds' trajectory up to the 21st century., In Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds, author Jerry Zolten portrays one of the most influential gospel groups of the 20th century, from 1920s South Carolina to 1940s New York, through the Civil Rights era and beyond.
LC Classification Number
ML394
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