

From that double album I American Religion 1:1 138 Of course: we talk a lot about gospel. On streaming services, you find the standard two-disc edition. If you would like a soundtrack to your reading, consider pulling up The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 Listening to gospel music while reading or writing about gospel music helps correct for some of this sensory hermeneutic confusion.

My work about Bob Dylan in music history is inspired and informed by the scholarly and pedagogical contributions of Daphne Brooks and Gayle Wald. Shelley, “Analyzing Gospel,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 72, no. Braxton Shelley says, “gospel music is a means by which to make one’s way through the world.” In his language, gospel is a sonic phenomenon that deploys a combination of repetition and intensification “to organize both sound and perception in pursuit of transcendence.”1 I am now going to write about something that we should hear to know.2 1 Braxton D. Mainly, though, a spirit you use sound to achieve. A particular kind of song and lyric, yes. It is just that words are the wrong way at it. doi: 10.2979/amerreli.1.1.08 Review Essay GOSPEL MINSTRELSY on Bob Dylan, Trouble No More: 1979–1981 The Bootleg Series, volume 13 Columbia Records (2017) Kathryn Lofton Yale University, New Haven, USA You have to begin by capturing in words something that is only partly about words.137–149 Copyright © 2019, The Trustees of Indiana University In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Īmerican Religion 1, no.
