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Presents the history of gospel music in the United States. This book traces the development of gospel from its earliest beginnings through the Golden Age (1945-55) and into the 1960s when gospel entered the concert hall. It introduces dozens of the genre's gifted contributors, from Thomas A Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson to the Soul Stirrers.
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Frederick Uehling was born in 1816 in Waldfisch, Germany. His father was Johann Caspar Uehling. He married Anna Margaretha Krug in 1836. They had twelve children. They emigrated in 1847 and settled in Richwood, Wisconsin. Several other Uehling families from the same area in Germany emigrated over the next forty years. They settled mainly in Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and California.
From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the advent of the record industry, readers witness the birth of the blues and the dawn of jazz in the 1910s and the emergence of country music on record and the shift from ...