Final Flashcards
Black Exodus
1867-1914
~5 Million AA move from South to North
Gospel’s Golden Age
1945-1965
What contributes to Gospel’s Golden Age + Features
-End of WW2
-Civil Rights Era
-Tech Advancements (Hi-Fi Records)
-Small Record Labels
-Talented singers and musicians
-Touring “Gospel Highway”
Difference between Gospel and Jubilee
Jubilee: post civil war, group to audience, “classicized” spirituals, piano & voice (SATB voice parts)
Gospel: post civil war, group to audience w/ audience participation, “good news” 16 bar gospel structure (SAT voice parts), piano, voice, guitar, bass, drums, organ
Gospel’s first big money record composer
Wiliam H Brewster
Mother of Gospel
Mahalia Jackson
Three divas
Rosetta Thorpe, Mahalia Jackson, Clara Ward
Father of Gospel, combines spirituals/shape notes music/blues, jazz
Thomas Dorsey
Cause for Great Migration
-Jobs
-Social factors
-Jim Crow
-Terrorism
-Voting restriction (poll taxes & Grandfather clause)
OG gospel pianist credited for boogie boogie style
Blind Arizona Dranes
Two Styles of Barbershop Quartets
Folk and Jubilee
Pre-gospel composer of 2 collections of hymns
Charles Tindley
NBC, “Gospel pearls”, song writer
Lucie Campbell
Contemporary of Dorsey
Roberta Martin
Rosetta Thorpe
First crossover artist/heavy entertainer