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Healing for the soul : Richard Smallwood, the vamp, and the gospel imagination /

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Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power. During this unfolding, a variety of techniques facilitate musical and physical transformation. The most important of these is a repetitive musical cycle known by names including the run, the drive, the s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shelley, Braxton D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2021].
Series:AMS studies in music.
Subjects:
Smallwood, Richard.
Gospel music > History and criticism.
Church music > African American churches.
Gospel music > Analysis, appreciation.
Table of Contents:
  • Reimagining gospel : An introduction
  • "A balm in Gilead" : "Tuning up" and the gospel imagination
  • The moment that changed everything : Gospel music and the incarnation of time
  • "The evidence of things not seen" : Gospel vamps and the incarnation of text
  • The pursuit of intensity : A formal theory of the gospel vamp.