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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2022]
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| Serie: | American made music series.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2kqx089 |
Sommario:
- 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.