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Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century

Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century

Booker, Vaughn A.

Hardcover

General ChristianityGeneral SociologyJazz

ISBN10: 1479892327
ISBN13: 9781479892327
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jul 21 2020
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Winner of the 2022 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, award by by the Council of Graduate Schools

Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the twentieth century

Beginning in the 1920s, the Jazz Age propelled Black swing artists into national celebrity. Many took on the role of race representatives, and were able to leverage their popularity toward achieving social progress for other African Americans.

In Lift Every Voice and Swing, Vaughn A. Booker argues that with the emergence of these popular jazz figures, who came from a culture shaped by Black Protestantism, religious authority for African Americans found a place and spokespeople outside of traditional Afro-Protestant institutions and religious life. Popular Black jazz professionals--such as Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams--inherited religious authority though they were not official religious leaders. Some of these artists put forward a religious culture in the mid-twentieth century by releasing religious recordings and putting on religious concerts, and their work came to be seen as integral to the Black religious ethos.

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