“When I think of Gospel music of the 70s I think of the cultural renaissance that period was and the beginning of a clearer distinction between Traditional Gospel and Contemporary Gospel ...

He attended church and listened to both black and white gospel music, developing an appreciation for quartets ... performances in the late 1960s and '70s at the International Hotel.

The next decade would usher in what's known as, "Gospel's Golden Age," when lead singers, quartets and choirs broke through to staggering levels of fame and sales. ♪ Without a father without a ...

DARRELL LUSTER: In the '70s, when they began the gospel division ... KAHN: Malaco soon signed a number of legendary gospel quartets like The Soul Stirrers and the Sensational Nightingales.

In the director Robert Clem’s documentary about gospel quartets and their undeniable influence on rock ’n’ roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe has competition. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ...

which has since become one of the most important albums in history for its unique blend of soul, funk, gospel and jazz music. The album also addressed social issues such as poverty, war and racism ...

Penn State Altoona professor of Communication Arts and Sciences Jerry Zolten produced and narrated a documentary, “How They Got Over/Gospel Quartets and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll,” which ...

Formed from the melding of soul, funk, and jazz with gospel and rock influences ... gave rise to the funk and disco bands of the ’70s and ’80s, leading to groups reminiscent of the doo ...

‘60s and ‘70s arrived as the most tactile variety of the 20th Century’s popular music: to feel was all. It was bred in the gospel music of the African-American churches of the US Deep South ...

These words of the opening prologue of the fourth gospel provide a clue to the nature of this work: it stands apart from the three synoptic gospels. It has often been called the "spiritual gospel ...

In the mid-‘70s, they’d begun signing old gospel quartets, groups that had flourished on defunct labels like Peacock and Nashboro. “Malaco, as they did with the soul-blues artists ...