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OverviewVolume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and on through the Montgomery bus boycott. This second volume continues the journey, chronicling the role this music played in energizing and sustaining those most heavily involved in the civil rights movement. Robert Darden, former gospel music editor for Billboard magazine and the founder of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project at Baylor University, brings this vivid, vital story to life. He explains why black sacred music helped foster community within the civil rights movement and attract new adherents; shows how Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders used music to underscore and support their message; and reveals how the songs themselves traveled and changed as the fight for freedom for African Americans continued. Darden makes an unassailable case for the importance of black sacred music not only to the civil rights era but also to present-day struggles in and beyond the United States. Taking us from the Deep South to Chicago and on to the nation’s capital, Darden’s grittily detailed, lively telling is peppered throughout with the words of those who were there, famous and forgotten alike: activists such as Rep. John Lewis, the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and Willie Bolden, as well as musical virtuosos such as Harry Belafonte, Duke Ellington, and The Mighty Wonders. Expertly assembled from published and unpublished writing, oral histories, and rare recordings, this is the history of the soundtrack that fueled the long march toward freedom and equality for the black community in the United States and that continues to inspire and uplift people all over the world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Darden (Baylor University)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.885kg ISBN: 9780271075761ISBN 10: 0271075767 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 02 September 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Special Thanks Introduction: What Came Before Chapter 1: The Sit-Ins Chapter 2: The Freedom Rides Chapter 3: Albany, Georgia First Interlude: McComb, Georgia Chapter 4: Birmingham, Alabama Chapter 5: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Second Interlude: Death in America Chapter 6: Mississippi Freedom Summer Chapter 7: Selma, Alabama Third Interlude: St. Augustine, Florida; The Meredith March; Popular Music Chapter 8: Chicago, Illinois Chapter 9: Memphis, Tennessee Epilogue: Poor People’s March and Resurrection City Conclusion: What Comes NowReviewsIn this first volume of a projected two, [Robert] Darden . . . gets immediately to the heart of his subject: music validates the African rites of passage and while continuing that role in African American history provides the commentary and response to all subsequent aspects of black life and society. Alert to the church as the haven for more than worship, the author illustrates this manifested from the plantations to the Fisk Jubilee Singers to the gospel music of Thomas Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson. Seeing the cultural fabric as a unit, Darden looks at the protests and responses within blues and jazz as well as in the sacred. The author is knowledgeable about the literature on the subject and has produced a work that will be useful to a broad audience. Scholarly readers will find the expansive bibliography and 26 pages of endnotes of particular value. </p> D.-R. de Lerma, <em>Choice</em></p> Author InformationRobert Darden is Professor of Journalism, Public Relations, and New Media at Baylor University. He is the author of two dozen books, including the first volume of Nothing but Love in God’s Water and People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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