When Sunday Comes: ADOS Gospel Music

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i need to find a way to post them

but in the James cleveland section they talk about how much of a global impact he had espescially influencing others in the "african diaspora" definitely so in SA and London

He influenced some of the early church choirs for London African/Caribbean communities and SA gospel communities.

yea, cleveland, andrae crouch, hawkins family, fred hammond, kirk franklin, donnie mcclurkin etc....played a big part in spreading contemporary afram gospel to those areas.

 

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Dr. Horace Clarence Boyer (July 28, 1935 – July 21, 2009)

was one of the foremost scholars in African-American gospel music.

Boyer received a B.A. from Bethune-Cookman College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. He and his brother James had a career as singers under the name the Famous Boyer Brothers. The brothers recorded for Excello (1952), Chance (1954), Vee-Jay (1955 and 1957), Nashboro and Savoy (1966 and 1967). He appeared with such artists as Mahalia Jackson, James Cleveland, Alex Bradford, Clara Ward, and Dorothy Love Coates.

As an educator, he taught at several universities, including the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1973-1999), Albany State College (GA), the University of Central Florida at Orlando and Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music where he served as Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Professor in 1992.[1] He directed many choirs and gospel workshops throughout the world, including annual events such as the Gospel Music Festival in Boulder, CO which he led from 1988 to 2008.[2] The author of the 1995 book, How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel Music, which received high praise from Booklist and Library Journal, Dr. Boyer was instrumental in introducing African-American gospel music to many communities beyond the African-American church.[3]

He served as guest curator of musical history at the Smithsonian Institution from 1985 to 1986, and was Distinguished Scholar-at-Large at Fisk University in 1986 and 1987, where he conducted the famed Fisk Jubilee Singers.[4] He was an advisor on gospel music to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and was editor of the 1993 edition of the African American hymnal, Lift Every Voice and Sing, II. Horace Boyer published over 40 articles on gospel music in publications that included the Music Educators Journal, the Black Music Research Journal and Black Perspectives in Music.

He was the 2009 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of The Society for American Music, an award whose past recipients include Robert Stevenson, Eileen Southern, Billy Taylor, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Bill C. Malone, Adrienne Fried Block, Vivian Perlis, Charles Hamm and other important musicologists, historians and educators.[5]

 

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[Cadillac]

so rn im on chapter 3 about Shirley Caesar

the dynamic of contrasting paths and career decisions with Cleveland and Crouch is interesting but shows how much it is needed for a genre i suppose.

James was more reserved and was content with staying in the gospel circle, whereas crouch was more outgoing to explore the secular sounds.

But ultimately gospel needed them both, Cleveland for his style and how he had gospel structured. and Crouch for trying to combine the secular and gosepl to make what we have today.

 

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a big part of the gospel sound

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Spoiler

 

[Cadillac]

Shirley Caesar was basically to gospel

what Tupac/Cube/Scarface/ Ice T (nas to, by around I Am) was to rap

Social concious storytelling artist that combined that with their Gospel element/ Gangsta or street rap

 

[skylove4]

I’m agnostic but I still love gospel music because I grew up on it and it’s straight from the souls of my people . When ever I hear hymn choir music like this, I’m transported into the past of being a kid with this being the only thing I didn’t hate about church I didn’t have the knowledge to appreciate this amazing music then but I do now









Songs like this still bring chills to my very bones , I love it

 

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[Cadillac]

Finished reading the book, will give my thoughts on some things later

 

[Cadillac]

one interesting note in the book on the history of some of the greatest gospel acts is how much the genre started to incoporate other elements and that led to more pushback

Bebe and Cece winans for example, with them talking and incoporating the secular of relationships and depression alot of people werent fukking with that

just goes to show in all form of music there is always that purist audience that dislike anything that is new or added into the art

 

[Cadillac]

when i get the chance im gonna post some links from the book

 

[Supper]

Been meaning to get wicha on this post.

I wanna make one about the great awakening(s) and the huge impact they had on BA culture and especially music.

But y'all know I'm lazy as shyt and get brain farts doe lol

 

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