""I messed up,"" Calvin Newton lamented, after wasting thirty years and doing time in both state and federal prisons for theft, counterfeiting, and drug violations. ""These were years of my life that I could have been singing gospel music."" During his prime, he was super-handsome, athletic, and charged with sexual charisma that attracted women to him like flies to honey. Atop this abundance was his astounding voice, ""the voice of an angel."" This book is his prodigal-son story. Audacious, Ne...
A companion volume to Ottman's "Elementary Harmony" (fourth edition), this volume studies 18th- and 19th-century harmony - and introduces the reader to 20th-century composition. Together the two volumes include materials ranging from music fundamentals through 20th-century music, covering the needs of the usual two-year college music theory programme in the subject areas of harmony, analysis, and the application of these to keyboard harmony.
In the late 1920s, Reverend A. W. Nix (1880–1949), an African American Baptist minister born in Texas, made fifty-four commercial recordings of his sermons on phonographs in Chicago. On these recordings, Nix presented vocal traditions and styles long associated with the southern, rural Black church as he preached about self-help, racial uplift, thrift, and Christian values. As southerners like Nix fled into cities in the North to escape the rampant racism in the South, they contested whether or...
Kompositionen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts weisen Syntax-ahnliche Regelmassigkeiten in der Abfolge von Tonen und Akkorden auf. Wie und warum entstanden diese Regelmassigkeiten? Das Buch stellt die Entwicklung der Satztechnik vom Mittelalter bis ca. 1700 dar und geht den Ursachen jedes einzelnen Entwicklungsschritts nach. Das Studium der Kompositionen und theoretischen Schriften ergibt hierzu aufschlussreiche Indizien, die sich verknupfen lassen mit musikpsychologischen Erkenntnissen uber die mus...
"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play." The Guardian "Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work." Daily News "Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . . but McCraney's speech holds its own, locating poetry even in casual vernacular and again demonstrating his gift for simile and metaphor." The Village Voice The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the...
The Galilee Story - The Story of a Small Gospel Record Label with a Good Idea
by Lowell Tarling, Anne Levitch, and Ivan Caldwell
Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road shows Anita Faye Garner grew up in the South-just about every corner of it. She and her musical family lived in Texarkana, Bossier City, Hot Springs, Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Pascagoula, Bogalusa, Biloxi, Gulfport, New Orleans, and points between, picking up sticks every time her father, a Pentecostal preacher known as 'Brother Ray,' took over a new congregation. In between jump-starting churches, B...