Wasn't That a Mighty Day (eBook)

African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster

Luigi Monge (Autor)

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2022 | PDF SINGLE
520 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-4177-3 (ISBN)

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Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best History in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, R&B, Gospel, Hip Hop, or Soul Music from the Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsWasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and cultural importance. Featuring newly transcribed lyrics, the book offers sustained attention to how both Black and white communities responded to many of the tragic events that occurred before the mid-1950s. Through detailed textual analysis, Luigi Monge explores songs on natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes); accidental disasters (sinkings, fires, train wrecks, explosions, and air disasters); and infestations, epidemics, and diseases (the boll weevil, the jake leg, and influenza). Analyzed songs cover some of the most well-known disasters of the time period from the sinking of the Titanic and the 1930 Drought to the Hindenburg accident, and more. Thirty previously unreleased African American disaster songs appear in this volume for the first time, revealing their pertinence to the relevant disasters. By comparing the song lyrics to critical moments in history, Monge is able to explore how deeply and directly these catastrophes affected Black communities; how African Americans in general, and blues and gospel singers in particular, faced and reacted to disaster; whether these collective tragedies prompted different reactions among white people and, if so, why; and more broadly, how the role of memory in recounting and commenting on historical and cultural facts shaped African American society from 1879 to 1955.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2022
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Vorwort: David Evans
• Zusatzinfo: 25 b&w photographs
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: 1893 Sea Islands Hurricane • 1918 Influenza pandemic • 1930 dry spell • 1930 Jamaica Ginger Paralysis • 1940 Natchez Fire • accidental • accidental disasters • Black • boll weevil • Casey Jones • Country Music • Covid-19 • Diseases • Epidemics • fire • fire(s) • Flood • flood(s) • God • History • Hurricane • hurricane(s) • infestations • Library of Congress • Lyrics • Memory • NATURAL • natural disasters • pandemics • Storm • the 1951 Poisoned Moonshine Tragedy • The Great Miami Hurricane • their eyes were watching god • Titanic • Tornado • tornado(es) • U.S. • zora neale hurston
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-4177-8 / 1496841778
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-4177-3 / 9781496841773