Healing for the Soul Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination by

Description: Healing for the Soul Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination by Braxton D. Shelley Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power. During this unfolding, a variety of techniques facilitate musical and physical transformation. The most important of these is a repetitive musical cycle known by names including the run, the drive, the special, and the vamp. Through its combination of reiteration and intensification, the vamp turns song lyrics into something more potent. While many musical traditions use vamps to fill space, or occupy time in preparation for another, more important event, in gospel, vamps are the main event. Why is the vamp so central to the black gospel tradition? What work-musical, cultural, and spiritual-does the gospel vamp do? And what does the vamp reveal about the transformative power of black gospel more broadly? This book explores the vamps essential place in black gospel song, arguing that these climactic musical cycles turn worship services into transcendent events. A defining feature of contemporary gospel, the vamp links individual performances to their generic contexts. An exemplar of African American musical practice, the vamp connects gospel songs to a venerable lineage of black sacred expression. As it generates emotive and physical intensity, the vamp helps believers access an embodied experience of the invisible, moving between this world and another in their musical practice of faith. The vamp, then, is a musical, cultural, and religious interface, which gives vent to a system of belief, performance, and reception that author Braxton D. Shelley calls the Gospel Imagination. In the Gospel Imagination, the vamp offers proof that musical sound can turn spiritual power into a physical reality-a divine presence in human bodies. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Minister, musician, and musicologist, Braxton D. Shelley is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Harvard University, and the Stanley A Marks and William H Marks Assistant Professor in Harvards Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. After earning a BA in Music and History from Duke University, Shelley received his PhD in the History and Theory of Music at the University of Chicago. Alongside his scholarly and practical investment in African American gospel music, Shelleys research and critical interests extend into media studies, sound studies, phenomenology, homiletics, and theology. Table of Contents About the Companion Website PrefaceReimagining Gospel: An IntroductionChapter 1: "A Balm In Gilead: "Tuning Up" and the Gospel ImaginationChapter 2: The Moment That Changed Everything: Gospel Music and the Incarnation of TimeChapter 3: "The Evidence of Things Not Seen": Gospel Vamps and the Incarnation of TextChapter 4: The Pursuit of Intensity: A Formal Theory of the Gospel VampCodaIndex Long Description Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power. During this unfolding, a variety of techniques facilitate musical and physical transformation. The most important of these is a repetitive musical cycle known by names including the run, the drive, the special, and the vamp. Through its combination of reiteration and intensification, the vamp turns song lyrics into something more potent. While many musical traditions usevamps to fill space, or occupy time in preparation for another, more important event, in gospel, vamps are the main event. Why is the vamp so central to the black gospel tradition? What work-musical, cultural, and spiritual-does the gospel vamp do? And what does the vamp reveal about thetransformative power of black gospel more broadly? This book explores the vamps essential place in black gospel song, arguing that these climactic musical cycles turn worship services into transcendent events. A defining feature of contemporary gospel, the vamp links individual performances to their generic contexts. An exemplar of African American musical practice, the vamp connects gospel songs to a venerable lineage of black sacred expression. As it generates emotive and physical intensity, the vamp helps believers access an embodiedexperience of the invisible, moving between this world and another in their musical practice of faith. The vamp, then, is a musical, cultural, and religious interface, which gives vent to a system of belief, performance, and reception that author Braxton D. Shelley calls the Gospel Imagination. In theGospel Imagination, the vamp offers proof that musical sound can turn spiritual power into a physical reality-a divine presence in human bodies. Review Text "Braxton D. Shelleys Healing for the Soul is, beyond any doubt, the best book written on gospel music. It is the most theoretically sophisticated and existentially grounded analysis of how sonic vamps and tuning ups turn spiritual power from another world into physical reality and material effects. Shelley engages the profound works of the great Richard Smallwood as a way into the complex dynamics of time, space, sound, reception and belief in theenactment and embodiment of the gospel imagination. This instant classic forever changes modern scholarship in contemporary music and Black cultural performance!" -- Cornel West, Harvard University"The New Gospel Music Studies is here to stay, and Healing for the Soul is a shining example of why. With it, Braxton Shelley emerges as a leading and incisive voice of this exciting movement. This profound and illuminating book could only have been written by someone whos spent years on the cultural frontline: in the pulpit, behind a Hammond B-3 organ, and immersed in the archives of gospel musics history and lived experiences. If youre lookingfor a musical, theological, and sociological explanation of the technology of gospel musics preoccupation with transcendence, search no further. Healing for the Soul will take you higher." -- Guthrie P.Ramsey, Jr, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania Review Quote "Braxton D. Shelleys Healing for the Soul is, beyond any doubt, the best book written on gospel music. It is the most theoretically sophisticated and existentially grounded analysis of how sonic vamps and tuning ups turn spiritual power from another world into physical reality and material effects. Shelley engages the profound works of the great Richard Smallwood as a way into the complex dynamics of time, space, sound, reception and belief in the enactment and embodiment of the gospel imagination. This instant classic forever changes modern scholarship in contemporary music and Black cultural performance!" -- Cornel West, Harvard University "The New Gospel Music Studies is here to stay, and Healing for the Soul is a shining example of why. With it, Braxton Shelley emerges as a leading and incisive voice of this exciting movement. This profound and illuminating book could only have been written by someone whos spent years on the cultural frontline: in the pulpit, behind a Hammond B-3 organ, and immersed in the archives of gospel musics history and lived experiences. If youre looking for a musical, theological, and sociological explanation of the technology of gospel musics preoccupation with transcendence, search no further. Healing for the Soul will take you higher." -- Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania Feature Selling point: Illustrates how gospel songs work, showing how specific musical decisions give rise to transcendent religious experienceSelling point: Combination of theology, black studies, phenomenology, and music studies allows the book to illuminate the many sides of this multi-faceted phenomenonSelling point: Incorporating ideas from interviews with gospel composers along with the authors insiders perspective New Feature About the Companion Website Preface Reimagining Gospel: An Introduction Chapter 1: "A Balm In Gilead: "Tuning Up" and the Gospel Imagination Chapter 2: The Moment That Changed Everything: Gospel Music and the Incarnation of Time Chapter 3: "The Evidence of Things Not Seen": Gospel Vamps and the Incarnation of Text Chapter 4: The Pursuit of Intensity: A Formal Theory of the Gospel Vamp Coda Index Details ISBN0197566464 Author Braxton D. Shelley Short Title Healing for the Soul Pages 320 Series AMS Studies in Music Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0197566464 ISBN-13 9780197566466 Format Hardcover Subtitle Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination Audience Professional and Scholarly Publisher Oxford University Press USA Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2021-09-08 AU Release Date 2021-09-21 NZ Release Date 2021-09-21 US Release Date 2021-09-21 UK Release Date 2021-09-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159409130;

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