Voices of Black folk : the sermons of Reverend A. W. Nix /

"In the late 1920s, Reverend A. W. Nix (1880-1949), an African American Baptist minister born in Texas, made fifty-four commercial recordings of his sermons on phonographs in Chicago. On these recordings, Nix presented vocal traditions and styles long associated with the southern, rural Black c...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Brinegar, Terri (Egilea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Saila:American made music series.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2kqx089
Aurkibidea:
  • Acknowledgments and research methodology
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Rev. A. W. Nix historical background
  • Chapter 2: Class divisions during the modern era
  • Chapter 3: The sermons
  • Chapter 4: Vocal and musical analysis
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.