CoverTitle pageCopyrightContentsIntroduction1. Prologue2. Southern Roots and Early Years3. Gospel Songs and Urban Revivalism4. Commercial Gospel Music5. New Technology to Promote an Old Story6. The Mission of Rainbow Records7. Spirituals and Minstrelsy8. Jim Crow Revivalism Meets the Klan9. Preserving and Exporting the Gospel Songs10. Falling Out of Step at the Close of an Era11. Epilogue: "It's Up to You, Rody, to Free Them"AcknowledgmentsNotesIndexBack cover
Kevin Mungons is a writer for print and digital platforms and editorial manager at Moody Bible Institute. Douglas Yeo was bass trombonist of the Boston Symphony and has taught trombone at Wheaton College and Arizona State University.
"Well-written, thoroughly researched, and altogether engaging. . .
Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is a
work of substantial scholarship, which will come as no surprise to
those familiar with Yeo's previous work." --Historic Brass
Society
"Well-written, thoroughly researched, and all together engaging. .
. Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is a
work of substantial scholarship, which will come as no surprise to
those familiar with Yeo's previous work." --Historic Brass Society
Journal
"Mungons and Yeo's book, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the
Gospel Music Industry, combines painstaking research with
insightful sociological and musicological analysis. Although
co-authored, the book has a unified narrative. . . . Even if one
has only marginal interest in Home Rodeheaver as a person, this
scholarly description of American society at the turn of the 20th
century proves fascinating and illuminating." --International
Trombone Association
"Refreshingly free of academic speak. . . . Homer Rodeheaver and
the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is more than a tale about the
emergence of gospel singing and revivalism, it's a quintessentially
American story about a quintessential American." --ARSC Journal
"Like virtually all books in the University of Illinois's
much-honored Music in American Life series, Homer Rodeheaver and
the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry fills in significant blanks
in our understanding of different aspects of music history. Mungons
and Yeo elevate their contribution with meticulous detail and
research; a penchant for finding fascinating, revealing stories and
anecdotes; and a sparkling, highly readable prose style that's all
too rare in most academic books. " --Robert
Darden, Christianity Today
"Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo’s biography of Homer Rodeheaver
brightens an important corner of gospel music history that has gone
unexplored for far too long. What they reveal in their remarkable
portrait of 'Reverend Trombone' is a man both of his time and ahead
of his time. It’s more than a tale of the emergence of gospel
singing and revivalism, it’s a quintessentially American story
about a quintessential American."--Robert Marovich, author of A
City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music
"I am truly taken by the book. It is good, informative,
comprehensive, and free of the usual assortment of clichés,
academic hems and haws, and over-spiritualization. It takes the
often over-simplified view of music and revivalism and exposes it
to a fascinating cross-weave of thought, content, and context
which, to my embarrassment, I thought I had already had a handle
on. I recommend it without reservation. There is no doubt in my
mind that general readers and specialists alike will benefit from
reading this book."--Harold Best, emeritus professor of music and
dean emeritus of the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music
"Mungons and Yeo have rescued a former icon of American religious
life from undeserved historical obscurity, placing Homer Rodeheaver
in the complex context of his times. . . . If you care about the
Christian music industry and an era largely lost to history, you’ll
want to read this book." --Stan Guthrie
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