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Author: Laura Clawson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0226109593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-19th century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. This title is a portrait of several Sacred Harp groups and an insightful exploration of how they manage to maintain a sense of community.
Author: Laura Clawson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0226109631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn’t performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings where, as the a cappella singers face each other around a hollow square, the massed voices take on a moving and almost physical power. I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah! is a vivid portrait of several Sacred Harp groups and an insightful exploration of how they manage to maintain a sense of community despite their members’ often profound differences. Laura Clawson’s research took her to Alabama and Georgia, to Chicago and Minneapolis, and to Hollywood for a Sacred Harp performance at the Academy Awards, a potent symbol of the conflicting forces at play in the twenty-first-century incarnation of this old genre. Clawson finds that in order for Sacred Harp singers to maintain the bond forged by their love of music, they must grapple with a host of difficult issues, including how to maintain the authenticity of their tradition and how to carefully negotiate the tensions created by their disparate cultural, religious, and political beliefs.
Author: Alan Light
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-06-07
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1982141360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaimed music journalist Alan Light follows the improbable journey of Cohen's "Hallelujah" straight to the heart of popular culture and gives insight into how great songs come to be, how they come to be listened to, and how they can be forever reinterpreted.
Author: Ryan H. Walsh
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0735221359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his first book, acclaimed musician and journalist Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory--along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, Walsh's book follows a criss-crossing cast of musicians and visionaries, artists and hippie entrepreneurs, from a young Tufts English professor who walks into a job as a host for TV's wildest show (one episode required two sets, each tuned to a different channel) to the mystically inclined owner of radio station WBCN, who believed he was the reincarnation of a scientist from Atlantis. Most penetratingly powerful of all is Mel Lyman, the folk-music star who decided he was God, then controlled the lives of his many followers via acid, astrology, and an underground newspaper called Avatar. A mesmerizing group of boldface names pops to life in Astral Weeks: James Brown quells tensions the night after Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated; the real-life crimes of the Boston Strangler come to the movie screen via Tony Curtis; Howard Zinn testifies for Avatar in the courtroom. From life-changing concerts and chilling crimes, to acid experiments and film shoots, Astral Weeks is the secret, wild history of a unique time and place. One of LitHub's 15 Books You Should Read This March
Author: Benjamin Franklin White
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 578
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Liel Leibovitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-04-14
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0393082059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA look not only at the inner man but also at the environments that shaped Leonard Cohen, from the rock scene of New York in the 1960s to the remote Zen monastery where Cohen spent years later in life.
Author: Clark Ezra Carr
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 520
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-05-19
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0691198594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe favors the use of a broad range of analytic tools drawn from multiple disciplines and approaches to the study of religion.) The five chapters of this book describe the central concepts and arguments now advancing the study of religious practice. Chapter 1, entitled "Theories", discusses the theoretical contributions associated with the aforementioned shift in religious studies to the investigation of religious practice. Chapter 2, "Situations", discusses how religious activities and experiences are shaped by the physical and temporal spaces in which social action occurs. Chapter 3, "Intentions", takes on an important topic that has proven difficult to study from a social science perspective. "Feelings" are the focus of Chapter 4, and the role of "Bodies" is addressed in Chapter 5. .
