Description:More than Precious Memories is the first book of its kind--a collection of essays offering scholarly analysis and interpretation of Southern Gospel Music. Believing Southern Gospel Music to be a significant cultural and religious phenomenon worthy of the best efforts of scholarship, Grayes and Fillingim have assembled a diverse group of scholars who apply a variety of methods and theories to the task of understanding Southern Gospel Music and its cultural context. These scholars and approaches include the following.- Scott Tucker, looks at the theme of "heaven" in six of the Gaither Homecoming songbooks- David Fillingim looks at how Southern Gospel Music answers the question of theodicy from the perspective of the rural white, working class- Robert M. McManus explores selected song lyrics to show how Southern- Gospel Music helps construct the identity of the community compared to Contemporary Christian Music- Darlene R. Graves identifies key sustaining personality strengths of women that tend to preserve consistency between their public performance and personal spiritual walk- Elizabeth F. Desnoyers Colas and Stephanie Howard (Asabi) explore Southern Gospel and Black Gospel music through the influence of Thomas A. Dorsey- Michael Graves examines how the culture of Southern Gospel Music deals with its inevitable prodigal sons- Raymond D.S. Anderson analyzes the Gaither Homecoming videos as examples of the postmodern turn in American popular Christian culture- John D. Keeler presents the first audience study of Southern Gospel Music employing a "Uses and Gratifications" research framework- Paul A. Creasman examines the ways Southern Gospel Musicas a culture memorializes its dead by use of the Internet- Naaman Wood reviews significant scholarly approaches to the study of popular music.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with More Than Precious Memories: The Rhetoric Of Southern Gospel Music. To get started finding More Than Precious Memories: The Rhetoric Of Southern Gospel Music, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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More Than Precious Memories: The Rhetoric Of Southern Gospel Music
Description: More than Precious Memories is the first book of its kind--a collection of essays offering scholarly analysis and interpretation of Southern Gospel Music. Believing Southern Gospel Music to be a significant cultural and religious phenomenon worthy of the best efforts of scholarship, Grayes and Fillingim have assembled a diverse group of scholars who apply a variety of methods and theories to the task of understanding Southern Gospel Music and its cultural context. These scholars and approaches include the following.- Scott Tucker, looks at the theme of "heaven" in six of the Gaither Homecoming songbooks- David Fillingim looks at how Southern Gospel Music answers the question of theodicy from the perspective of the rural white, working class- Robert M. McManus explores selected song lyrics to show how Southern- Gospel Music helps construct the identity of the community compared to Contemporary Christian Music- Darlene R. Graves identifies key sustaining personality strengths of women that tend to preserve consistency between their public performance and personal spiritual walk- Elizabeth F. Desnoyers Colas and Stephanie Howard (Asabi) explore Southern Gospel and Black Gospel music through the influence of Thomas A. Dorsey- Michael Graves examines how the culture of Southern Gospel Music deals with its inevitable prodigal sons- Raymond D.S. Anderson analyzes the Gaither Homecoming videos as examples of the postmodern turn in American popular Christian culture- John D. Keeler presents the first audience study of Southern Gospel Music employing a "Uses and Gratifications" research framework- Paul A. Creasman examines the ways Southern Gospel Musicas a culture memorializes its dead by use of the Internet- Naaman Wood reviews significant scholarly approaches to the study of popular music.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with More Than Precious Memories: The Rhetoric Of Southern Gospel Music. To get started finding More Than Precious Memories: The Rhetoric Of Southern Gospel Music, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.