People Get Ready!: A New History of Gospel Music is a passionate,
celebratory, and carefully researched chronology of one of
America's greatest treasures. From Africa through the spirituals,
from minstrel music through jubilee, and from traditional to
contemporary gospel, People Get Ready! shows the links between
styles, social patterns, and artists. The emphasis is on the
stories behind the songs and musicians. From the nameless slaves of
Colonial America to Donnie McClurkin, Yolanda Adams, and Kirk
Franklin, People Get Ready! provides, for the first time, an
accessible overview of this musical genre. In addition to the more
familiar stories of Thomas A. Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson, the book
offers intriguing new insights into the often forgotten era between
the Civil War and the rise of jubilee-that most intriguing blend of
minstrel music, barbershop harmonies, and the spiritual. Also
chronicled are the connections between some of gospel's precursors
(Blind Willie Johnson, Arizona Dranes, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe)
and modern gospel stars, including Andrae Crouch and Clara Ward.
People Get Ready! knits together a number of narratives, and
combines history, musicology and spirituality into a coherent
whole, stitched together by the stories of dozens of famous and
forgotten musical geniuses. FROM THE INTRODUCTION "Among the
richest of the lavish gifts Africa has given to the world is
rhythm. The beat. The sound of wood on wood, hand on hand. That
indefinable pulse that sets blood to racing and toes to tapping. It
is rhythm that drives the great American musical exports, the
spiritual (and, by extension, gospel), the blues, jazz and rock 'n'
roll. But first you must have the spirituals-religion with rhythm.
In this book, I will show the evolution of a musical style that
only occasionally slows down its evolution long enough to be
classified before it evolves yet again. In historical terms,
spirituals emerged from African rhythm, work-songs, and field
hollers in a remarkably short time-years, perhaps days-after the
first African slaves landed on American shores. From the spirituals
sprang not just their spiritual heir jubilee, but jazz and blues.
And gospel music in its modern understanding morphed from the
spirituals, the blues, jubilee and-of course-African rhythm. What
today's gospel music is and what it is becoming is part of the
continuing evolution of African American music. Religion with
rhythm."
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