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  title info:
    title: Homer Rodeheaver and the rise of the gospel music industry
  name:
    name part: Mungons, Kevin
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Yeo, Douglas
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 331 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Homer Rodeheaver merged evangelical hymns and African American spirituals with popular music to create a potent gospel style. Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo examine his enormous influence on gospel music against the backdrop of Christian music history and Rodeheaver's impact as a cultural and business figure. Rodeheaver rose to fame as the trombone-playing song leader for evangelist Billy Sunday. As revivalism declined after World War I, Rodeheaver leveraged his place in America's newborn celebrity culture to start the first gospel record label and launch a nationwide radio program. His groundbreaking combination of hymnal publishing and recording technology helped define the early Christian music industry. In his later years, he influenced figures like Billy Graham and witnessed the music's split into southern gospel and black gospel. Clear-eyed and revealing, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is an overdue consideration of a pioneering figure in American music.
  table of contents: Prologue -- Southern roots and early years -- Gospel songs and urban revivalism -- Commercial gospel music -- New technology to promote an old story -- The mission of Rainbow Records -- Spirituals and minstrelsy -- Jim Crow revivalism meets the Klan -- Preserving and exporting the gospel songs -- Falling out of step at the close of an era -- Epilogue : "It's up to you, Rody, to free them."
  note: Kevin Mungons & Douglas Yeo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rodeheaver, Homer A. (Homer Alvan)
      name part: 1880-1955
  subject:
    topic: Evangelists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Gospel music
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Music publishers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Musicians
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Trombonists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  classification: ML429.R63 M86 2021
  classification: 782.25/4092 B
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Music in American life
  identifier: 0252043847
  identifier: 0252085833
  identifier: 9780252043840
  identifier: 9780252085833
  identifier: 9780252052743
  identifier: 2021006510
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210210
    record change date: 20250816185311.1
    record identifier: in00004605086