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Author : Joseph Linn
Release : 1987-06-29
Genre : Choirs (Music)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 345/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Moving Up to Gloryland by : Joseph Linn
Download or read book Moving Up to Gloryland written by Joseph Linn. This book was released on 1987-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 75 favorite Gospel songs overflowing with warmth and natural exuberance, featuring dozens of southern Gospel classics.
Author : Shelton Johnson
Release : 2010-07-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 819/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gloryland by : Shelton Johnson
Download or read book Gloryland written by Shelton Johnson. This book was released on 2010-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A work of extraordinary imagination and sympathy, a journey from slavery to the mountaintop, perfectly realized.” —Ken Burns, American filmmaker Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave—but his self–image as a free person is at war with his surroundings: Spartanburg, South Carolina, in the Reconstructed South. Exiled for his own survival as a teenager, Elijah walks west to the Nebraska plains—and, like other rootless young African–American men of that era, joins up with the US cavalry. The trajectory of Elijah’s army career parallels the nation’s imperial adventures in the late 19th century: subduing Native Americans in the West, quelling rebellion in the Philippines. Haunted by the terrors endured by black Americans and by his part in persecuting other people of color, Elijah is sustained only by visions, memories, prayers, and his questing spirit—which ultimately finds a home when his troop is posted to the newly created Yosemite National Park in 1903. Here, living with little beyond mountain light, running water, campfires, and stars, he becomes a man who owns himself completely, while knowing he’s left pieces of himself scattered along his life’s path like pebbles on a creek bed. “Seen through the fresh eyes of buffalo soldier Elijah Yancy, Yosemite is Gloryland, his true home. Shelton Johnson has written a beautiful novel about Elijah’s journey.” —Maxine Hong Kingston, author of China Men and The Woman Warrior
Author : Michael P. Graves
Release : 2004
Genre : Gospel music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 555/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis More Than Precious Memories by : Michael P. Graves
Download or read book More Than Precious Memories written by Michael P. Graves. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Kenneth Barham
Release : 2007-05
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 978/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Westward to Gloryland by : Kenneth Barham
Download or read book Westward to Gloryland written by Kenneth Barham. This book was released on 2007-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howling Wolf, a Comanche warrior, watched his life's blood being pumped from his leg to the ground below. He applied pressure to the severed artery, but knew he would die within minutes. A terrible drought forces Jeb Hawkins and his family, as well as Shawnee Chief Grey Cloud and his tribe, from their land, and they guide you on a journey from Tennessee to the Colorado Territory. The trip is a long and dangerous journey where anything can happenand sometimes does.
Author : Robert A. Allen
Release : 2022-07-15
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 029/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Revival in the Rockies by : Robert A. Allen
Download or read book Revival in the Rockies written by Robert A. Allen. This book was released on 2022-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volatile politics of the Reagan era connect America's female terrorist group to a plot to set off the feared super volcano in Yellowstone Park. A young Native American girl running for governor of Montana and the pianist for a Southern gospel quartet discover and spoil the plot during a revival in the Montana Rockies. They also discover one another. But he is a potential FBI agent from Washington, DC, and she is a rodeo queen from Montana. The course of love does not run smoothly, but a love for Big Sky Country and a drink of creek water brings them together.
