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Homer Rodeheaver and the rise of the gospel music industry
- Title
- Homer Rodeheaver and the rise of the gospel music industry / Kevin Mungons & Douglas Yeo.
- Author
- Mungons, Kevin, 1963-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Yeo, Douglas
- Description
- 331 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Music in American life
- Uniform Title
- Music in American life.
- Subjects
- Evangelists
- Trombonists
- Musicians
- Music publishers
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- United States
- Rodeheaver, Homer A (Homer Alvan), 1880-1955
- Gospel music > History and criticism
- Evangelists > United States > Biography
- Trombonists > United States > Biography
- Musicians > United States > Biography
- Music publishers > United States > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-312) and index.
- 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".
- Call Number
- JME 21-614
- ISBN
- 9780252043840
- 0252043847
- 9780252085833
- 0252085833
- LCCN
- 2021006510
- 40030620911
- OCLC
- 1193596926
- Author
- Mungons, Kevin, 1963- author.
- Title
- Homer Rodeheaver and the rise of the gospel music industry / Kevin Mungons & Douglas Yeo.
- Publisher
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Music in American lifeMusic in American life.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-312) and index.
- Added Author
- Yeo, Douglas, author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Mungons, Kevin, 1963- Homer Rodeheaver and the rise of the gospel music industry. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021] 9780252052743 (DLC) 2021006511 (OCoLC)1237649588
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030620911
- Research Call Number
- JME 21-614