Healing For The Soul Av Braxton D. (assistant Professor Department Of Music Assistant Professor Department Of Music Harvard University) Shelley

Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power. During this unfolding, a variety of techniques facilitate musical and physical transformation. The most important of these is a repetitive musical cycle known by names including the run, the drive, the special, and the vamp. Through its combination of reiteration and intensification, the vamp turns song lyrics into something more potent. While many musical traditions usevamps to fill space, or occupy time in preparation for another, more important event, in gospel, vamps are the main event. Why is the vamp so central to the black gospel tradition? What work-musical, cultural, and spiritual-does the gospel vamp do? And what does the vamp reveal about thetransformative power of black gospel more broadly? This book explores the vamp''s essential place in black gospel song, arguing that these climactic musical cycles turn worship services into transcendent events. A defining feature of contempo

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