Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry

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From tent revivals to radio and records with a gospel music innovator

Homer Rodeheaver merged evangelical hymns and African American spirituals with popular music to create a potent gospel style. Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo examine his enormous influence on gospel music against the backdrop of Christian music history and Rodeheaver's impact as a cultural and business figure. Rodeheaver rose to fame as the trombone-playing song leader for evangelist Billy Sunday. As revivalism declined after World War I, Rodeheaver leveraged his place in America's newborn celebrity culture to start the first gospel record label and launch a nationwide radio program. His groundbreaking combination of hymnal publishing and recording technology helped define the early Christian music industry. In his later years, he influenced figures like Billy Graham and witnessed the music's split into southern gospel and black gospel.

Clear-eyed and revealing, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is an overdue consideration of a pioneering figure in American music.

Author(s): Kevin Mungons, Douglas Yeo
Series: Music in American Life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Year: 2021

Language: English
Pages: 350
City: Urbana

Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1. Prologue
2. Southern Roots and Early Years
3. Gospel Songs and Urban Revivalism
4. Commercial Gospel Music
5. New Technology to Promote an Old Story
6. The Mission of Rainbow Records
7. Spirituals and Minstrelsy
8. Jim Crow Revivalism Meets the Klan
9. Preserving and Exporting the Gospel Songs
10. Falling Out of Step at the Close of an Era
11. Epilogue: “It’s Up to You, Rody, to Free Them”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Back cover