The Devil’s Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil’s Music write by Randall J. Stephens. This book was released on 2018-03-19. The Devil’s Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When rock ’n’ roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar industry. The Devil’s Music tells the story of this transformation. Rock’s origins lie in part with the energetic Southern Pentecostal churches where Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, and other pioneers of the genre worshipped as children. Randall J. Stephens shows that the music, styles, and ideas of tongue-speaking churches powerfully influenced these early performers. As rock ’n’ roll’s popularity grew, white preachers tried to distance their flock from this “blasphemous jungle music,” with little success. By the 1960s, Christian leaders feared the Beatles really were more popular than Jesus, as John Lennon claimed. Stephens argues that in the early days of rock ’n’ roll, faith served as a vehicle for whites’ racial fears. A decade later, evangelical Christians were at odds with the counterculture and the antiwar movement. By associating the music of blacks and hippies with godlessness, believers used their faith to justify racism and conservative politics. But in a reversal of strategy in the early 1970s, the same evangelicals embraced Christian rock as a way to express Jesus’s message within their own religious community and project it into a secular world. In Stephens’s compelling narrative, the result was a powerful fusion of conservatism and popular culture whose effects are still felt today.
Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies
Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies write by James A. Cosby. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it really came about. Taking a fresh look at events long overlooked or misunderstood, this book tells how some of the most disenfranchised people in a free and prosperous nation strove to make themselves heard--and changed the world. Describing the genesis of rock and roll, the author covers everything from its deep roots in the Mississippi Delta, key early figures, like deejay "Daddy-O" Dewey Phillips and gospel star Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and the influence of so-called "holy rollers" of the Pentecostal church who became crucial performers--Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.
Chasin' that Devil Music
Chasin' that Devil Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chasin' that Devil Music write by Gayle Wardlow. This book was released on 1998. Chasin' that Devil Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the development and characteristics of the Delta blues, and describes the most influential blues musicians and recordings of the 1920s and 1930s
The Devil's Music
The Devil's Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil's Music write by Giles Oakley. This book was released on 1978. The Devil's Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anecdotes, reminiscences, first-hand reports, and appreciative commentary combine to provide a celebratory account of the blues' development from turn-of-the-century New Orleans honky-tonk and Mississippi Delta barrelhouse to today's urban blues.
The Devil's Music
The Devil's Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil's Music write by Jane Rusbridge. This book was released on 2009-07-06. The Devil's Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. _______________ 'This intricately structured, brilliantly observed modern take on a family saga is both passionate and moving and the prose snaps, crackles and pops with gorgeous detail' - Lesley Glaister 'Vividly and intensely written' - Jane Rogers, author of Mr Wroe's Virgins 'Pure pleasure to read' - Kathy Page, author of The Story of My Face 'A sharp exposé of the devastating effects of the taboos that govern motherhood ... This story is fresh, vivid - and startlingly contemporary' - Alison MacLeod, author of The Changeling _______________ A haunting, lyrical story of love, betrayal, and family secrets buried in the shifting landscape of memory It is 1958 and the Sputnik satellite has taken a dog up into space; back on earth, five-year-old Andy has a new sister, Elaine - a baby who, his father insists, is 'not quite all there'. While his parents argue over whether or not to send Elaine away, Andy sleeps beside her cot each night, keeping guard and watching as his mother - once an ambitious, energetic nurse - twists away into her private, suffocating sadness. Knots keep treasures safe, Andy's rope-maker grandfather tells him, and, as he listens to stories of the great Harry Houdini, Andy learns the Carrick Bend, the Midshipman's Hitch and the Monkey's Fist. Then a young painter, hired to decorate the family's house, seems to call Andy's mother back from the grief in which she is lost. But one day, at The Siding - the old railway carriage that serves as the family's seaside retreat - Andy is left in charge of his baby sister on a wind-chopped beach, where he discovers that not all treasures can be kept safe for ever. Three decades later Andrew returns from self-imposed exile to The Siding, the place where his life first unravelled. Looking back on the broken strands of his childhood, he tries, at last, to weave them together, aided by his grandfather's copy of The Ashley Book of Knots and the arrival of a wild-haired, tango-dancing sculptor - a woman with her own ideas about making peace with the past.
