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Recounts the life and achievements of the lead singer of the Staple Singers, revealing how her family fused diverse musical genres to transcend racism and oppression through song, and discussing her collaborations with fellow artists and her impact on civil rights culture.
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"Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the...
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They're handsome, smart, and gifted. Brothers Camden and Blaine Drake have combined their talents and founded a gospel group. At first, their bishop father is against the idea -- until Blaine, his favorite, wows the congregation performing at a church revival. Sure enough, once the bishop witnesses their effect on the crowd he wants them there every Sunday. But he may have set the stage for trouble: as the group's popularity increases, so do the groupies....
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The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that inflames his nonfiction work.Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into...
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"A picture book biography of pioneering guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe"--
"Decades before Elvis Presley was dubbed the King of Rock and Roll, before Billy Haley played 'Rock Around the Clock,' and before the Beatles revolutionized popular music, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Black guitar player from Cotton Plant, Arkansas."--
14) Mahalia Jackson
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A biography of the renowned gospel singer who hoped, through her art, to break down some of the barriers between black and white people.
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The Clark Sisters: first ladies of gospel is the story of one of gospel's most iconic groups--and their pioneering matriarch. Mattie Moss Clark. From Humble Detroit beginnings--where they struggled through rejection, betrayal, and loss--to international fame as the best-selling female gospel group in history, the Clark sisters' saga is as remarkable and uplifting as it is true.
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