More Than Precious Memories by Michael P. (EDT) Graves
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More Than Precious Memories

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More than Precious Memories is the first book of its kind--a collection of essays offering scholarly analysis and interpretation of Southern Gospel Music. Believing Southern Gospel Music to be a significant cultural and religious phenomenon worthy of the best efforts of scholarship, Grayes and Fillingim have assembled a diverse group of scholars who apply a variety of methods and theories to the task of understanding Southern Gospel Music and its cultural context. These scholars and approaches include the following.
- Scott Tucker, looks at the theme of "heaven" in six of the Gaither Homecoming songbooks
- David Fillingim looks at how Southern Gospel Music answers the question of theodicy from the perspective of the rural white, working class
- Robert M. McManus explores selected song lyrics to show how Southern
- Gospel Music helps construct the identity of the community compared to Contemporary Christian Music
- Darlene R. Graves identifies key sustaining personality strengths of women that tend to preserve consistency between their public performance and personal spiritual walk
- Elizabeth F. Desnoyers Colas and Stephanie Howard (Asabi) explore Southern Gospel and Black Gospel music through the influence of Thomas A. Dorsey
- Michael Graves examines how the culture of Southern Gospel Music deals with its inevitable prodigal sons
- Raymond D.S. Anderson analyzes the Gaither Homecoming videos as examples of the postmodern turn in American popular Christian culture
- John D. Keeler presents the first audience study of Southern Gospel Music employing a "Uses and Gratifications" research framework
- Paul A. Creasman examines the ways Southern Gospel Musicas a culture memorializes its dead by use of the Internet
- Naaman Wood reviews significant scholarly approaches to the study of popular music.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780865549555
  • Publisher: Mercer University Press
  • Binding: PAPERBACK
  • Height: 222 mm
  • No of Pages: 310
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Rhetoric Of Southern Gospel Music
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0865549559
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2004
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 499 gr


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