The Rise of Gospel Blues
Subtitle: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 3, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780195090574
First sentence: Daniel Alexander Payne, the sixth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, was so disturbed by the presence and behavior of "Praying and Singing Bands" that he devoted over four pages of his Recollections to criticizing these groups as the "strange delusion that many ignorant but well-meaning people labor under": About this time I attended a "bush meeting," where I went to please the pastor whose circuit I was visiting.