The Mahalia Jackson Reader

Herausgeber: Burford, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on new research and sources, The Mahalia Jackson Reader brings a fresh perspective to the remarkable life of one of America's most notable gospel singers. The volume also shows, through the lens of Jackson's work, a uniquely illuminating view of the black gospel field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780190461652
• ISBN-10: 0190461659
• Artikelnr.: 58343348

Autorenporträt

Mark Burford is Associate Professor of Music at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he is also chair of the American Studies program. His research and teaching focuses on twentieth-century popular music in the United States, with particular focus on African American music after World War II, and late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Austro-German concert music.

Inhaltsangabe

* PART I: Louisiana Roots
* 1. Mahalia Jackson and Evan McLeod Wylie: Gumstump (1966)
* 2. Mahala Jackson's Birth Certificate (1911)
* 3. Laurraine Goreau: Mahalia Jackson in New Orleans (1975)
* 4. Mahalia Jackson: Childhood Memories (1952)
* 5. Octavia Randolph: For the Record (1955)
* 6. U.S. Census: Mahaly Jackson at Aunt Duke's (1930)
* PART II: Commentary, Conversation, and Critical Appraisal
* 7. Bucklin Moon: A Great Gospel Singer (1949)
* 8. Bernice Bass: Louisiana Cinderella (1951)
* 9. Evelyn Cunningham: Mahalia the Mystery (1954)
* 10. Marshall Stearns: Jazz, Metronome Sense, and Blue Tonality (1956)
* 11. Mason Sargent: Meet Mahalia Jackson (1954)
* 12. George T. Simon: A Veteran Gospel Singer Thinks Jazz Should Have
a Soul but "Gospel Penetrates Deeper" (1954)
* 13. Nat Hentoff: You Can Still Hear Her Voice When the Music Has
Stopped (1957)
* 14. Raymond Horricks: Mahalia's Emotional Performance at Newport
Festival (1958)
* 15. Langston Hughes: Singer of Gospel Songs (1955)
* 16. Ralph Ellison: As the Spirit Moves Mahalia (1958)
* 17. Alex Haley: She Makes a Joyful Music (1961)
* 18. Malcolm X: "Fishing" and Filling Up at the Storefronts (1964)
* 19. Duke Ellington: Come Sunday (1973)
* 20. Studs Terkel: Thomas A. Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson (1973/2005)
* 21. Hans Rookmaaker: Visiting Mahalia Jackson (1962)
* 22. Hettie Jones: Mahalia Jackson (1974)
* 23. Whitney Balliett: Halie (1972 and 1975)
* 24. Leonard Feather: Mahalia and Her Principles (1962)
* 25. Leonard Feather: A Talk with Mahalia Jackson (1964)
* 26. Leonard Feather: Mahalia Keeps the Faith in Turbulent Times
(1969)
* 27. Leonard Feather: Mahalia's Gospel Truth in Asia (1971)
* 28. Anthony Heilbut: Mahalia the Queen (1971)
* PART III: Press Coverage
* 29. Evangelist in Recital at Cleveland (1938)
* 30. Honored by Dayton Gospel Fans (1952)
* 31. Rob Roy: Boy, the Ear Muffs, Those "Gospel" Discs are Here (1953)
* 32. George F. Brown: It's the Gospel Truth (1953)
* 33. Jack Saunders: Mahalia Jackson Raps "Glamour" Gospel Singing
(1954)
* 34. Dawn Francis: Mahalia and Clara in Hot Contest of Gospel Singers
(1955)
* 35. Langston Hughes: Gospel Singers and Gospel Swingers are Gone
(1953)
* 36. Spiritual Artists Survive Great Slump-Others feel "Pinch" (1954)
* 37. Gospel Singing!...It's Big Business! (1955)
* 38. Bishop William Jacob Walls: Swinging Spirituals? (1960)
* 39. Review of "Since the Fire Started Burning in My Soul" b/w "In My
Home Over There" (1951)
* 40. Mahalia Jackson and Sarah Vaughan (1951)
* 41. Mahalia Jackson Given Top French Music Award (1951)
* 42. Ollie Stewart: Report from Europe (1952)
* 43. Songs in Bethlehem (1952)
* 44. Letter to Izzy Rowe from Israel (1953)
* 45. Jean-Robert Masson: The Place of Mahalia Jackson (1961/1972)
* 46. Manfred Sack: The Voice of the Other America (1981)
* PART IV: Mahalia Jackson and Her Circle in Their Own Words
* 47. Mahalia Jackson: Gospel Singing (1951)
* 48. Mahalia Jackson: 1950 Carnegie Hall Debut (1967)
* 49. Mahalia Jackson: A Made-up Mind (1963)
* 50. Sallie Martin: Mentoring Mahalia Jackson (1972)
* 51. Brother John Sellers: Rooting for Mahalia Jackson (1972)
* 52. Alice McClarity: Being Mentored by Mahalia Jackson (2011)
* 53. Alfred Duckett: Celebrating Mahalia Jackson (1955)
* 54. Mildred Falls: Playing for Mahalia Jackson (1972)
* 55. Louise Overall Weaver: On the Road with Mahalia Jackson (1982)
* PART V: Scholarly Literature
* 56. Willie Jennings: The Black Sacred Singer of Sacred Song as an
Icon (1989)
* 57. Horace Clarence Boyer: The Vocal Style of Mahalia Jackson, Gospel
Singer (1990)
* 58. Michael Harris: Thomas A. Dorsey's Training of Mahalia Jackson
(1992)
* 59. Robert Marovich: "She's the Empress! The Empress!" (2015)
* 60. Adam Green: Making the Music (2007)
* 61. Johari Jabir: On Conjuring Mahalia (2009)
* 62. Emily Lordi: Ralph Ellison's Mahalia Jackson (2013)
* 63. Mark Burford: The Modern Gospel Singer (2014)
* 64. Barry Long: Mahalia Jackson, Jazz, and Signifying Spirituality
(2014)
* PART VI: Live Performance
* 65. Gospel Song Diva: Carnegie Hall, October 1, 1950
* 66. Peter Feldman: At the Brooklyn Academy, April 3, 1959
* 67. Dick Flohil: A Salute to Mahalia Jackson, Madison Square Garden,
May 24, 1959
* 68. Hugues Panassié: Mahalia Jackson's Triumph: L'Olympia, Paris,
April 25, 1961
* 69. Valerie Wilmer: Royal Albert Hall, London, May 18, 1969
* 70. D. A. Rodrigues: Concert Tour to India, April 29-May 8, 1971
* PART VII: The Record Business
* 71. Mahalia Jackson and S. I. Hayakawa: Decca and Apollo (1954)
* 72. Mahalia Jackson: "Move on Up A Little Higher" (1951)
* 73. Richard Kleiner: Mahalia Jackson Sings for Glory of the Lord
(1954)
* 74. Alfred Lorber: Columbia Records Signs Mahalia Jackson (1954)
* 75. George Avakian and Bill Russell: First Columbia Albums
(1954-1955)
* 76. Mahalia Jackson: Sweetened-Water Songs (1967)
* 77. John A. Campbell: Letter to John McClure (1973)
* 78. Irving Townsend: Mahalia Jackson the Album Artist (1972)
* PART VIII: Radio, Television, and Film
* 79. S. R. Garlington: Toast of the Town (1952)
* 80. 3,000 Hear Mahalia Jackson (1954)
* 81. Charles Wolfe: Mahalia on the Air, 1954 (1990)
* 82. Edward "Sonny" Murrain: Appraising The Mahalia Jackson Show
(1954-55)
* 83. Willa Saunders Jones: Queen Mahalia at Greater Salem Baptist
Church (1955)
* 84. Jules Schwerin: Imitation of Life (1992)
* 85. Mahalia Jackson: Letter to George Avakian about Jazz on a
Summer's Day (1960)
* PART IX: Bill Russell's Mahalia Jackson Journal
* 86. Bill Russell: Mahalia Jackson Journal, 1954-1955
* PART X: Politics, Activism, and Entrepreneurship
* 87. Conrad Clark: Gospel Queen Threatens to Sue Leftists (1952)
* 88. Rev. James L. Lofton: Letter to John Foster Dulles (1955)
* 89. Mahalia Rocks Walking Folks (1956)
* 90. Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (1957)
* 91. Mahalia Plans Huge Rights Benefit (1963)
* 92. Mahalia Jackson: To All Freedom Fighters (1963)
* 93. Salute to Southern Freedom (1963)
* 94. Lerone Bennett Jr.: The March (1963)
* 95. Craig Werner: Mahalia and the Movement (1998)
* 96. Drew Hansen: Speech and Song (2005)
* 97. Martin Luther King Jr.: Letter to Mahalia Jackson (c. 1964)
* 98. Mahalia Jackson and Granville White: There Hasn't Been a Man Like
That Since Jesus (1968)
* 99. Mahalia's House of Flowers
* 100. Mahalia Jackson: The Mahalia Jackson Foundation (1967)
* 101. Mahalia Jackson to Salute Black Women (1969)
* 102. Mahalia Jackson: Self-Help (1971)
* 103. Black Management (1969)
* 104. John T. Edge: Mahalia Jackson's Chicken System (2017)
* 105. Alice Randall: Glori-fried and Glori-fied (2015)
* 106. Mahalia Jackson Cooks Soul (1970)
* 107. Toni Tipton-Martin: Southern Cooking (2015)
* PART XI: Poetry
* 108. Ted Joans: Mahalia Jackson (1968)
* 109. James A. Emanuel: Mahalia Jackson (1999)
* 110. Jacques Réda: Assumption of Mahalia Jackson (1980)
* 111. Michael S. Harper: mahalia: MAHALIA (1975)
* 112. Audre Lorde: The Day They Eulogized Mahalia (1973)
* 113. Quandra Prettyman: When Mahalia Sings (n.d.)
* 114. Ollie Griddine: Poem (c. 1960s)