...Jon Michael Spencer Michael W. Harris . The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church . New York : Oxford University Press , 1992 . Pp. xxiii , 324. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 88 Black Sacred Music Michael W. Harris...

...Thomas A. Dorsey Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Gospel Songwriter Attacks All Hot Bands' Swinging Spirituals Thomas A. Dorsey Since the music war has been on between ASCAP and BMI which went into effect January r, I have heard many of the Negro spirituals played by some...

... is known around the world as black gospel music. This genre which evolved during the latter part of the nineteenth century became popular in the early twenties when the Father of Gospel Music, Thomas A. Dorsey, began proliferating the church scene with his songs. Much like the fate of the spiritual...

... E. "Jesus Gave Me Water." Gospel. Carter, Nathan, arr. "Precious Lord" (By Thomas Dorsey). Gospel Hymn. SATB. Carter, Roland M . "Behold the Days Come Xerox MS. Cantata. SATB and Piano. - - - , arr. "Choral Responses Based On Old Hymn Tunes and Afro-American Spirituals." Xerox MS. SATB. - - - , arr...

..., "There'll Be No Rationing in Glory" (by Prof. M . "Don" Walker), seems to be a response to government rationing of commodities during wartime. Most of the songs in the volume do not credit the author. Nonetheless it has been possible to determine that Thomas A. Dorsey, Albert Brumley, E. M. Bartlett, Elder...

... with the Blues, p. 168. 16 The Journal of Black Sacred Music the blues side." Moreover, it is due to their kinship, said Hooker, that he quit singing spirituals and started singing the blues. 66 The conversion of Thomas Dorsey is another excellent example of the congenital conflict characteristic...

... in the selected verse being only tangentially related to the hymn. For example, Thomas A. Dorsey's hymn, ''Precious Lord, Take My Hand" is given the impertinent Scriptural subheading, "Thou wilt show me the path of life; at 5Iris Stevenson, originally from Buffalo, New York, is presently the Chairperson...

..., Arthur, xii Dawson, William L., 213, 234-35, 238 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, ix Dett, R. Nathaniel, 43, 168, 180, 183, 185,226-2~232-33,235 dialect, 13-15, 145, 146, 171-72. See Gullah Dinkins, William, xvii Diton, Carl, 236-37 dolly, 97 Dorsey, James, 238 Dorsey, Thomas, 27 Douglass...

... a minister of music, and her sisters, aunts, and uncles were musicians. Notable among them is her famous uncle Thomas A. Dorsey, who she said most influenced her gospel style. Dorsey had the young Lena accompanying such renowned gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson and Sally Martin. Significantly influenced...

... original style was established by Sy Oliver, his trumpeter who also arranged for him. (Sy Oliver is now in the Army working with a band at an eastern camp. Ed.) This was unusual because most of the arrangers do not play in the bands. Then Tommy Dorsey discovered him and he is now arranging for Dorsey. Bill...

... music has been enlivened by the gospel song. The chief exponent and creator of gospel songs is a recruit from the theatre, Thomas A. Dorsey, who used to play the blues for Ma Rainey. Songs such as his moving, "Take My Hand, Precious Lord," have gone beyond the Negro church and are now used by white...

... (Holiness) CSA, and Mason of the Church of God in Christ (coc1c). The first hymnal of the coc1c, entitled Yes, Lord! (1982), was published a full seventy-five years after the founding of the church. Along with the myriad gospel songs covering the C. P. Jones, Thomas A. Dorsey, and Andrae Crouch eras, Yes...

... Sankey, and then turns to Thomas A. Dorsey and sketches the history of gospel. Chapter 4, "Kabiesile Shango! A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Ritual Frames," forms the basis of the author's compelling discussion of the binary ritual frame as a paradigm, again demonstrating two distinct "mood" frames...

... and contemporary Black expressions of Catholic faith. At least half of the 323 pieces in this section are spirituals and gospel songs by such Black writers as Charles Albert Tindley, Charles H. Mason, Thomas A. Dorsey, Roberta Martin, Doris Akers, Lucie E. Campbell, Kenneth Morris, Clara Ward, James Cleveland...

... to Die." Thomas Dorsey named it "Precious Lord Take My Hand." C. A . Tindley called it "We'll Understand It Better By and By," and C. P. Jones named it "The High Places I'll Bring Down." In our day we use titles for the same new song like "I'm Still Holding On," "You Just Trust and Believe...

... Wattsian and 58 Wesleyan hymns (52 by Charles Wesley, three by Samuel Wesley, and one each by John Wesley, Samuel Wesley, Sr. , and Samuel Wesley, Jr Correspondingly, the Baptistic CME hymnal has seven hymns or arrangements each by Thomas Dorsey, Roberta Martin, Kenneth Morris, Lucie E. Campbell, and Doris...

... Davis, Angela, 3 Daylie, Daddy-0, 42 DC Talk, 8 "Dick Almighty," 4, 70-71, 78 DJ Jam Master Jay, 14 DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, 17, 34 DJ Terminatior X, 41 "Don't Believe the Hype," 23, 39- 40 Dorsey, Thomas A., 8 dozens, the, 27, 771 78. See also African-American traditions Dr Jeckyll and Mr...

... with Decca Records. It was a successful marriage with the group supplying such popular songs as Thomas Dorsey's "Precious Lord" and "I Want Jesus to Walk Around My Bedside" and Decca Records providing a product that widely publicized their name beyond their New York City base. During the early part...

... Dobbs, Mattiwilda, 11 Dorsey, Tommy, 119 Douglas, Joe, 221 Downes, Olin, 15, 185, 237 Draper, Paul, 119 Dreyfuss, Henry, 12 Drye, Frank, 221 DuBois, W E. B., x, 45 Index 273 Dumas, Alexandre, 201 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 9, 10, 160, 165, 170 Dunbar, Rudolph, 11, 16-17, 24, 27, 40, 50, Si-53, 54-55, 60...

... Debord, Guy, 92 "December Days," 263 Dett, R. Nathaniel, 53-54, 58-59 Deutung des Melos, 161 Dewey, John, 5o DeYoung, Dennis, 194 Diaghilev, Serge, 181 Diamond, Neil, 2 14 Dictionnaire de musique, 55 disco music, 211 Don Giovanni, 23-24 Index 211 "Don't Give Up," 88 Dorsey, Thomas A., 223 Dowling, Eddie...