"Rejoice and Shout" Chronicles History of Gospel Music
No wonder the music is so beautiful. Gods on their side. Perhaps the most intense and emotional music you can ever hear is the best of African-American Gospel music. Packed with evocative photos, rare audio recordings, stirring film and TV performances, REJOICE AND SHOUT covers the 200 year musical history of African-American Christianity.
Culled from hundreds of hours of music, REJOICE AND SHOUT features thecrme de la crmeof Gospel music, tracing the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into Gospel, the emergence of Soul, and the blending of Rap and Hip Hop elements. Gospel music also walked in step with the story of African-American culture - slavery, hardscrabble rural existence and plantation work, the exodus to major cities, the Depression, World War II, civil rights and empowerment. BLACK PR WIRE
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