...Nelson George George , Nelson . The Death of Rhythm and Blues . New York : Pantheon Books , 1988 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Boolrlenews TS based its interest in both sacred and secular forms of music. Building upon this premise (pastiche), theomusicology...

...Robert E. Hood Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Thrills and Chills of Death Robert E. Hood For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. For he must reign until he had put...

...) and first Chief Overseer (1903-1930) of the church, and Bishop F. E. Lewis, she was eventually ordained Chief Overseer by the General Assembly in 1931, following Tate's decease, and served until her death in 1962. 1 "That is why I am printing this book," she wrote. "l am in authority to do so." Prior...

...Orea Jones Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 ffle Theology ol 11Sexu11I Healing": Marvin Gaye Orea Tones Shot to death by his father on the day before his forty-fifth birthday in 19841 singer and performing artist Marvin Gaye was a troubled man who lived a tormented life...

... that our age had rejected because we had worshipped a single god it would worship many!'3 Indeed, Nietzsche had already signaled all this with his "death of God" and the straight-out naming of the new situation as that of polytheism, as David Miller reminds us.4 But clearly what has taken place...

...Cornel West Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 In Memory of Marvin Gaye Comel West Much of the significant truth about the career of the Afro-American singer Marvin Gaye may be obscured by the problems of his later life and the manner of his dying !he was shot to death by his...

... perfect Through Job's suffering, making a mortal for God by being faithful unto death. For God Had to have a man for the Christian path. 2 The harder Job's cross, the harder he loved God, and God prepared a way for the Christian By expressing His perfect will through Job for the Church to know and to do...

... to them (as to us), 54 The Journal of Black Sacred Music was obviously their belief. They showed their belief in his divinity by ascription to him of supernatural power. He "rides in the middle of the air," "walks upon the water," ·'gives sight to the blind," ··rids death of its terror." His resurrection...

... integrity and personal relationships and human relations in general-those aspects of life governed by "habits of the heart"-are strained to a death-dealing breaking point. Hard times like these challenge not only the habits of the heart but also the habits of the soul. The crisis in commitment...

... that it also accounted for the cosmological perspective blues singers held regarding life and death. Kokomo Arnold sang in his "Rocky Road Blues" that his mother always told him when he was but a child, "Son you must always remember, Lord, that you was born to die." Within the Adamic mythological rubric...

...! If only Death of the body would come to deliver the soul from dying! If some sacred taboo had been defiled and this extended terror was the consequence-there would be no panic in the paying. If some creature of the vast and pulsing ;ungle had snatched the life away-this would even in its wildest fear...

...? 77 do a comprehensive analysis, I would like to suggest a window in popular culture through which we can gather a glimpse of prevalent views of the progress made or not made since King's death. This window is the medium of music. Before moving forward, let me suggest a brief defense...

...Rebecca T. Cureau Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction At the time of his death in 1966, Willis Laurence James had lived to see a gradual turning...

... Howard Thurman, Deep River and The Negro Spiritual Speaks oflife and Death (Richmond, Indiana: Friends United Press, 1975), p. 18. 5Joseph Vogt, Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Men, trans. Thomas Woedman (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984), p. 149. Servant Imagery in African-American Spirituals 47 Although...

... sanctions beyond human reckoning, then it is, indeed, rash and audacious for one person to dare to stand up before or among other people and declare that he or she brings from the Eternal God a message for those who listen which involves issues nothing less than those of life and death. 4 John R. W Stott...

.... In the experiences of the children of Israel in bondage in Egypt, he visualized a situation analogous to his own constraint in America, a land which then to him was a foreign land. The resurrection of Jesus became a glorious picture of his own escape, even through death, from the double-dark prison of ignorance...

..., forgiveness, life, death, hope-in images that come (implicitly perhaps) from his Catholic childhood, images that appeal to the whole person, not just the head, and that will be absorbed by far more Americans than those who listened to the Pope. I intend no disrespect to the Pope or to the importance of his...

... the notion of reincarnation: There's a bird in the sky Flying high, flying high, From a place, to a place Just changing skies, just changing skies.a Another album which I have been in conversation with over the years is Yesterday's Wine. This is actually a life-cycle album: it moves from birth to death...

...." He was believed to have made a pact with the devil that enabled him to play the guitar incredibly well but that resulted in his early death. Other badmen blues singers lived to have the kind of dramatic conversion experience Roberts speaks of, a conversion experience often occurring on the brink...

... and the secular are inextricably linked. George, Nelson. The Death of Rhythm and Blues. New York : Pantheon Books, 1988. The postwar North, with its mixture of southern migrants and northern citizens, and its particular socioeconomic and political problems, is what Nelson George terms the "rhythm and blues world...