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Sound Business : = Great Women of Gospel Music and the Transmission of Tradition.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sound Business :/
Reminder of title:	Great Women of Gospel Music and the Transmission of Tradition.
Author:	Ohman, Nina Christina.
Description:	1 online resource (374 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Subject:	Music. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355183368

Sound Business : = Great Women of Gospel Music and the Transmission of Tradition.
Ohman, Nina Christina.

Sound Business :Great Women of Gospel Music and the Transmission of Tradition. - 1 online resource (374 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

From the 1930s to the present, women have played instrumental and visible leadership roles in the remarkable growth of African American gospel music. Through both creative and entrepreneurial activities, these women paved the way for the expansion of an emotive sacred music expression from the worship practices of southern migrants to audiences around the world. This dissertation focuses on the work of three cultural trailblazers, Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, and Karen Clark Sheard, who stand out in the development of gospel music as virtuosic vocalists and pivotal figures whose sonic imprints can be heard both in sacred songs performed in churches and in American popular music. By deploying exceptional musicality, a deep understanding of African American Christianity, and an embrace of commercialism, the three singers have conserved and reworked musical elements derived from an African American heritage into a powerful performance rhetoric. By using musical mastery, they have forged paths for gospel music as a commercial phenomena and a vehicle to transform discourses of race, gender, class, and religion. At the same time, they have managed other duties and responsibilities in their families, in their communities, and in the music industry, thus demonstrating that "greatness" in gospel music is the outcome of extraordinary skills and various interwoven forms of labor.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355183368Subjects--Topical Terms:

649088
Music.
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Electronic books.

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