The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music

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Edited by Allan Moore, University of Surrey

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2011
Print publication year:: 2003
Online ISBN:: 9780511998713
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521806350

Subjects:: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest
Collection:: The Cambridge Companions to Music
Series:: Cambridge Companions to Music

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From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the mythology of twentieth-century culture. The styles in which they sang have proved hugely influential to generations of popular singers, from the wholesale adoptions of singers like Robert Cray or James Brown, to the subtler vocal appropriations of Mariah Carey. Their own music, and how it operates, is not, however, always seen as valid in its own right. This book provides an overview of both these genres, which worked together to provide an expression of twentieth-century black US experience. Their histories are unfolded and questioned; representative songs and lyrical imagery are analysed; perspectives are offered from the standpoint of the voice, the guitar, the piano, and also that of the working musician. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact the genres have had on mainstream musical culture.

'The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music will find its place in serious collections of a musical nature.'

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'… stimulating and informative book …'.

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Frontmatter
pp i-xviii

1 - Surveying the field: our knowledge of blues and gospel music
pp 1-12

2 - Labels: identifying categories of blues and gospel
pp 13-19

3 - The development of the blues
pp 20-43

4 - The development of gospel music
pp 44-60

5 - Twelve key recordings
pp 61-88

6 - “Black twice”: performance conditions for blues and gospel artists
pp 89-101

7 - Vocal expression in the blues and gospel
pp 102-115

8 - The Guitar
pp 116-129

9 - Keyboard techniques
pp 130-140

10 - Imagery in the lyrics: an initial approach
pp 141-157

11 - Appropriations of blues and gospel in popular music
pp 158-187

Notes
pp 188-193

Bibliography
pp 194-201

Selected discography and videography
pp 202-204

Index
pp 205-208

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