Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field, Burford Mark

Автор: Burford Mark
Название: Mahalia Jackson Reader
ISBN: 0190461659 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190461652
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: 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, ВThe Mahalia Jackson ReaderВplaces 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. BecauseВof 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.

Автор: Burford Mark
Название: Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field
ISBN: 0190095520 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190095529
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Nearly a half century after her death, Mahalia Jackson remains the most esteemed figure in black gospel music history. Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field situates Jackson`s journey from church singer in New Orleans and Chicago to national pop-cultural celebrity within the expanding visibility of black gospel in the U.S. during the decade following World War II.