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008			160901s2017 msu b 001 0ceng
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035			_a(Sirsi) i9781496810908
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020			_a9781496810908 _q(hardcover ; _qalk. paper)
020			_a1496810902
020			_z9781496810915 _q(epub single)
020			_z9781496810922 _q(epub institutional)
020			_z9781496810939 _q(pdf single)
020			_z9781496810946 _q(pdf instiutional)
035			_a(OCoLC)957696714
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050	0	0	_aML 400 _b.H368 2017
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100	1		_aHarper, Ryan P., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Gaithers and southern gospel : _bhomecoming in the twenty-first century / _cRyan P. Harper.
264		1	_aJackson : _bUniversity Press of Mississippi, _c2017
264		4	_c2017
300			_axi, 315 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aAmerican made music series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 253-305) and index.
505	0		_aTime present and time past : the Homecomings, 1991-1952 -- Between Jesus and John Wayne : constructing Guy Penrod -- Let's just praise the Lord : (a)politics of the Homecomings -- Preaching to the choir : Gloria Gaither and Homecoming intraevangelicalism -- Some work of noble note : the Homecomings in the twenty-first century -- Home boarders : Lynda Randle and race.
520			_aIn The Gaithers and Southern Gospel, Ryan P. Harper examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither's Homecoming video and concert series-a gospel music franchise that, since its beginning in 1991, has outperformed all Christian and much secular popular music on the American music market. The Homecomings represent "southern gospel." Typically that means a musical style popular among white evangelical Christians in the American South and Midwest, and it sometimes overlaps in style, theme, and audience with country music. The Homecomings' nostalgic orientation- their celebration of "traditional" kinds of American Christian life-harmonize well with southern gospel music, past and present. But amidst the backward gazes, the Homecomings also portend and manifest change. The Gaithers' deliberate racial integration of their stages, their careful articulation of a relatively inclusive evangelical theology, and their experiments with an array of musical forms demonstrate that the Homecoming is neither simplistically nostalgic, nor solely "southern." Harper reveals how the Gaithers negotiate a tension between traditional and changing community norms as they seek simultaneously to maintain and expand their audience as well as to initiate and respond to shifts within their fan base. Pulling from his field work at Homecoming concerts, behind the scenes with the Gaithers, and with numerous Homecoming fans, Harper reveals the Homecoming world to be a dynamic, complicated constellation in the formation of American religious identity [Publisher description]
600	1	0	_aGaither, Gloria.
600	1	0	_aGaither, Bill.
610	2	0	_aGaither Vocal Band.
650		0	_aGospel musicians _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aGospel music _xHistory and criticism.
830		0	_aAmerican made music series.
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