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Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field (Paperback)
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Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field (Paperback)
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Nearly a half century after her death in 1972, Mahalia Jackson
remains the most esteemed figure in black gospel music history.
Born in the backstreets of New Orleans in 1911, Jackson during the
Great Depression joined the Great Migration to Chicago, where she
became an highly regarded church singer and, by the mid-fifties, a
coveted recording artist for Apollo and Columbia Records, lauded as
the "World's Greatest Gospel Singer." This "Louisiana Cinderella"
narrative of Jackson's career during the decade following World War
II carried important meanings for African Americans, though it
remains a story half told. Jackson was gospel's first
multi-mediated artist, with a nationally broadcast radio program, a
Chicago-based television show, and early recordings that introduced
straight-out-of-the-church black gospel to American and European
audiences while also tapping the vogue for religious pop in the
early Cold War. In some ways, Jackson's successes made her an
exceptional case, though she is perhaps best understood as part of
broader developments in the black gospel field. Built upon
foundations laid by pioneering Chicago organizers in the 1930s,
black gospel singing, with Jackson as its most visible
representative, began to circulate in novel ways as a form of
popular culture in the 1940s and 1950s, its practitioners accruing
prestige not only through devout integrity but also from their
charismatic artistry, public recognition, and pop-cultural cachet.
These years also saw shifting strategies in the black freedom
struggle that gave new cultural-political significance to African
American vernacular culture. The first book on Jackson in 25 years,
Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field draws on a trove of
previously unexamined archival sources that illuminate Jackson's
childhood in New Orleans and her negotiation of parallel careers as
a singing Baptist evangelist and a mass media entertainer,
documenting the unfolding material and symbolic influence of
Jackson and black gospel music in postwar American society.
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