"Precious Lord": Black Mother-Loss and the Roots of Modern Gospel
Thomas Dorsey's 1932 gospel song Take My Hand, Precious Lord is one of modern gospel music's most canonical works. Although its composition by Dorsey in the wake of his wife's sudden death in childbirth is a widely known oral history, the cultural implications of a wider history of he...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2019]
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Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-13 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Gospel Music B Thomas Dorsey B Nettie Dorsey B maternal death B Blues B infant mortality |
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