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The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
The Rise of Gospel Blues The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
Author: Michael W. Harris
Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as Michael W. Harris's history of gospel blues reveals. Tracing the rise of gospel blues as seen through the career of its founding figure, Thomas Andrew Dorsey, Harris tells...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195090574
ISBN-10: 0195090578
Publication Date: 5/3/1994
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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