America in Wax
Author | : Gene Gurney |
Publisher | : New York : Crown Publishers |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780517525241 |
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Author | : Gene Gurney |
Publisher | : New York : Crown Publishers |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780517525241 |
Author | : Lerone A Martin |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2014-11-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0814708129 |
The overlooked African American religious history of the phonograph industry Winner of the 2015 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize for outstanding scholarship in church history by a first-time author presented by the American Society of Church History Certificate of Merit, 2015 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections From 1925 to 1941, approximately one hundred African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Columbia, Paramount, Victor-RCA to record and sell their sermons on wax. While white clerics of the era, such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Fuller, became religious entrepreneurs and celebrities through their pioneering use of radio, black clergy were largely marginalized from radio. Instead, they relied on other means to get their message out, teaming up with corporate titans of the phonograph industry to package and distribute their old-time gospel messages across the country. Their nationally marketed folk sermons received an enthusiastic welcome by consumers, at times even outselling top billing jazz and blues artists such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. These phonograph preachers significantly shaped the development of black religion during the interwar period, playing a crucial role in establishing the contemporary religious practices of commodification, broadcasting, and celebrity. Yet, the fame and reach of these nationwide media ministries came at a price, as phonograph preachers became subject to the principles of corporate America. In Preaching on Wax, Lerone A. Martin offers the first full-length account of the oft-overlooked religious history of the phonograph industry. He explains why a critical mass of African American ministers teamed up with the major phonograph labels of the day, how and why black consumers eagerly purchased their religious records, and how this phonograph religion significantly contributed to the shaping of modern African American Christianity. Instructor's Guide
Author | : Geroge and Bache Wood (Franklin) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2020 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amy L. Wax |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2009-07-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442200278 |
Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the law of remedies to show that the conventional wisdom is mistaken. She argues that effectively addressing today's persistent racial disparities requires dispelling the confusion surrounding blacks' own role in achieving equality. The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that discrimination against blacks has dramatically abated. The most important factors now impeding black progress are behavioral: low educational attainment, poor socialization and work habits, drug use, criminality, paternal abandonment, and non-marital childbearing. Although these maladaptive patterns are largely the outgrowth of past discrimination and oppression, they now largely resist correction by government programs or outside interventions. Wax asserts that the black community must solve these problems from within. Self-help, changed habits, and a new cultural outlook are, in fact, the only effective tactics for eliminating the present vestiges of our nation's racist past. Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution
Author | : George Bacon Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1950 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Dispensatories |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wax Museum Inc. (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Waxworks |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Bureau of the Census |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1276 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harold Schechter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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