Images of The Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals

Destruction in this Land
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-3-631-68131-2
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 136 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

Reihe: New Americanists in Poland

This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation. It also focuses on how literary themes in spirituals and blues depict the destruction of the world, death, Christian judgement, heaven and catastrophic events in personal lives of African Americans that result in loss. Selected blues lyrics and texts of spirituals show the persistence of these themes. The book was written with a broad potential audience in mind especially among those interested in religion, eschatology, spirituals, blues and African American studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zió¿ek-Sowi¿ska, Ma¿gorzata

Ziólek-Sowinska, Malgorzata

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Weltmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Geistliche Musik, Religiöse Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Spiritual Dimension of Emergent Blues – Visions of the Apocalypse and Cataclysmic Events in Religious Disaster Songs and the Blues – The Approaching Apocalypse: The Last Judgement and the Book of Revelation in Spirituals and Blues Recorded by Blues Musicians – Images of Death and Heaven in Spirituals and Blues Recorded by Blues Musicians

Über Autor(innen)

Malgorzata Ziólek-Sowinska graduated from the Institute of Art, Music Department at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin; the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, and from the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. She earned her Ph.D. degree from the Modern Languages Department, University of Warsaw. She teaches at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw.