Books

Building Your Music Business Basic Foundation – Henry Harris

2022-12-13T19:09:41-06:00December 12th, 2022|

Building Your Music Business Basic FoundationHenry HarrisSpiritmedia LLC (release date: September 25, 2022)By Robert M. MarovichBuilding Your Music Business Basic Foundation is a brief primer written by music industry veteran and educator Henry Harris. He shares practical general knowledge, gained over years of experience, to help independent artists learn the [...]

“Someone Has to Care” – Christian Scharen

2021-12-24T16:43:32-06:00December 24th, 2021|

Someone Has to Care: The Roots and Hip-Hop’s Prophetic Calling. By Christian Scharen. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books. 130 pp. (paperback). Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography. ISBN 978-1-5326-1217-6. $18.00 By Robert M. Marovich As Christian Scharen observes in his new book, Someone Has to Care, the titles of albums by hip-hop group The [...]

“Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community” by Robert L. Stone (book review)

2021-03-29T03:02:29-05:00March 29th, 2021|

Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community. By Robert L. Stone. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 192 pp. (hardcover). Illustrations, Extended Photo Captions, Notes. ISBN 978-1-4968-3150-7. $40.00 By Robert M. Marovich With Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Florida historian and folklorist Robert Stone presses [...]

Moving Forward and Facing the Future in the Black Church Worship Experience – Dr. Antonia M. Arnold-McFarland

2019-01-14T05:14:09-06:00January 14th, 2019|

Moving Forward and Facing the Future in the Black Church Worship Experience. By Dr. Antonia M. Arnold-McFarland. EFlat Major Productions, 2018. 155pp. (softcover). Appendices. ISBN 9-781732-336506 By Bob Marovich An engineer by training, Dr. Antonia Arnold-McFarland earned certification in Six Sigma, a process improvement technique developed at Motorola in 1980. [...]

Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green (Jimmy McDonough)

2017-12-15T00:42:26-06:00December 14th, 2017|

Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green. By Jimmy McDonough. Da Capo Press, 2017. 432pp. (hardcover). Index, illustrations. ISBN 978-0-306-82267-4. $28 By Bob Marovich “This was a very challenging project,” journalist and biographer Jimmy McDonough concedes in the acknowledgements of Soul Survivor, his biography of Al Green. You can almost hear [...]

The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century – Ryan P. Harper

2017-09-16T18:02:15-05:00September 16th, 2017|

The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century. By Ryan P. Harper. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 326 pp. (printed casebinding). Index. ISBN 978-1-4968-1090-8. $65 By Bob Marovich Rarely have television programs or video franchises received the microscopically detailed analysis that ethnographer Ryan P. Harper gives [...]

Living the Life I Sing: Gospel Music from the Dorsey Era to the Millennium

2016-11-14T23:16:45-06:00November 14th, 2016|

Living the Life I Sing: Gospel Music from the Dorsey Era to the Millennium (First Edition) Alphonso Simpson Jr. and Thomas A. Dorsey, III, eds. Paperback; 180 pages, with illustrations (Cognella Academic Publishing) https://titles.cognella.com/living-the-life-i-sing-9781634875493.html By Bob Marovich Living the Life I Sing is a fascinating collection of essays from prominent [...]

Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism and the Phonograph, 1890-1900

2016-10-31T23:26:13-05:00October 31st, 2016|

Various Artists Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism and the Phonograph, 1890-1900 Archeophone Records (release date: September 30, 2016) www.archeophone.com By Bob Marovich There is something quite thrilling about hearing voices singing and speaking from more than a century ago. Those crackly, trebly vowels and consonants, like faraway voices over an [...]

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