Post by blueescorpio2000 on Feb 18, 2024 9:27:45 GMT -5
Episode 1 - The Gospel Train
www.pbs.org/video/the-gospel-train/
GOSPEL’s hour 1 takes the gospel train north to Chicago, where
southern migrants Thomas A. Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson and Sister
Rosetta Tharpe blended the melodic sounds and instrumentation
of blues and jazz with lyrics about God’s goodness. Like the
blues, gospel would become a commodity, but one built by
Black-owned publishing companies like Martin and Morris
and sustained by Black audiences.
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Episode 2 - The Golden Age of Gospel
www.pbs.org/video/the-golden-age-of-gospel/
Starting in the 1940s, GOSPEL’s hour 2 explores the Golden Age of
Gospel — the dramatic explosion of Black sacred music and the
segregated highways of the American South — through the successful
careers of Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. As the
lines between the sacred and secular blur, gospel music becomes the
powerful soundtrack of the freedom struggle.
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Episode 3 - Take the Message Everywhere
www.pbs.org/video/take-the-message-everywhere/
GOSPEL’s hour 3 reveals how gospel was going mainstream and family
dynasties, many raised in the Church of God in Christ, would dominate
the charts. Meanwhile, other children of the church used their heavenly
voice to influence soul music. As gospel artists took the message
everywhere, Black pastors continued to distinguish their message
through a prophetic voice and sound with sermonettes.
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Episode 4 - Gospel's Second Century
www.pbs.org/video/gospels-second-century/
GOSPEL’s hour 4 opens in the 1990s, when a new generation of music
producers, record executives and artists embraced the secular rhythms
of R&B and hip-hop to modernize the gospel sound. The launch of the
Platinum Age of Gospel brought commercially successful songs about
faith to millions in clubs, on cable TV and on urban radio, but drew
criticism that gospel music had gone too far.
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www.pbs.org/video/the-gospel-train/
GOSPEL’s hour 1 takes the gospel train north to Chicago, where
southern migrants Thomas A. Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson and Sister
Rosetta Tharpe blended the melodic sounds and instrumentation
of blues and jazz with lyrics about God’s goodness. Like the
blues, gospel would become a commodity, but one built by
Black-owned publishing companies like Martin and Morris
and sustained by Black audiences.
*********************************
Episode 2 - The Golden Age of Gospel
www.pbs.org/video/the-golden-age-of-gospel/
Starting in the 1940s, GOSPEL’s hour 2 explores the Golden Age of
Gospel — the dramatic explosion of Black sacred music and the
segregated highways of the American South — through the successful
careers of Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. As the
lines between the sacred and secular blur, gospel music becomes the
powerful soundtrack of the freedom struggle.
********************************************
Episode 3 - Take the Message Everywhere
www.pbs.org/video/take-the-message-everywhere/
GOSPEL’s hour 3 reveals how gospel was going mainstream and family
dynasties, many raised in the Church of God in Christ, would dominate
the charts. Meanwhile, other children of the church used their heavenly
voice to influence soul music. As gospel artists took the message
everywhere, Black pastors continued to distinguish their message
through a prophetic voice and sound with sermonettes.
*****************************************************
Episode 4 - Gospel's Second Century
www.pbs.org/video/gospels-second-century/
GOSPEL’s hour 4 opens in the 1990s, when a new generation of music
producers, record executives and artists embraced the secular rhythms
of R&B and hip-hop to modernize the gospel sound. The launch of the
Platinum Age of Gospel brought commercially successful songs about
faith to millions in clubs, on cable TV and on urban radio, but drew
criticism that gospel music had gone too far.
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