The Golden Age of Gospel (Music in American Life)
Contributors: Lloyd Yearwood (Photographer)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: February 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780252068775
Subjects: Sacred & religious music; Soul & Gospel; Black Musicians And Their Music; Music; Music/Songbooks; History & Criticism - General; Instruction & Study - Voice; Religious - Gospel; Music / General; Ethnomusicology; Gospel Music; History and criticism
First sentence: In 1969 Edwin Hawkins, an Oakland, California, based pianist and choir director of the Church of God in Christ, reworked the nineteenth-century white Baptist hymn "O Happy day" by Philip Doddridge (1702-51) and Edward Rimbault (1816-76).