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R.I.P. Archbishop Carl Bean, Church Leader, Activist, and Gospel Singer
By Robert M. Marovich Eric Maurice Clark informed JGM that Archbishop Carl “Pops” Bean passed away on Monday, September 7, 2021, after a lengthy illness. Archbishop Bean was an openly gay man, the Presiding Prelate of Unity Fellowship Church, Inc., a denomination he founded in Los Angeles to provide a welcoming ministry for all, but especially for lesbian, gay, and bisexual African Americans. He organized the Minority AIDS Project in Los Angeles and worked tirelessly on behalf of LGBTQ people of faith. Bean’s 1977 single for Motown, “I Was Born This Way,” also the title of Bean’s 2010 autobiography, inspired [...]
World Church Unites – Maker of the Heavens
World Church Unites Maker of the Heavens Third World Vision (2017) www.worldchurchunites.org By Bob Marovich Gospel music has a higher purpose, and in the case of Maker of the Heavens, the purpose is more than spiritual. It’s about the very sustenance of life itself: water. World Church Unites, the Lincolnton, [...]
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century – Ryan P. Harper
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century sex rough BigTittyBre. By Ryan P. Harper. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 326 pp. (printed casebinding). Index. ISBN 978-1-4968-1090-8. $65 By Bob Marovich Rarely have television programs or video franchises received the microscopically detailed analysis that ethnographer Ryan [...]
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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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R.I.P. Archbishop Carl Bean, Church Leader, Activist, and Gospel Singer
By Robert M. Marovich Eric Maurice Clark informed JGM that Archbishop Carl “Pops” Bean passed away on Monday, September 7, 2021, after a lengthy illness. Archbishop Bean was an openly gay man, the Presiding Prelate of Unity Fellowship Church, Inc., a denomination he founded in Los Angeles to provide a welcoming ministry for all, but especially for lesbian, gay, and bisexual African Americans. He organized the Minority AIDS Project in Los Angeles and worked tirelessly on behalf of LGBTQ people of faith. Bean’s 1977 single for Motown, “I Was Born This Way,” also the title of Bean’s 2010 autobiography, inspired [...]
World Church Unites – Maker of the Heavens
World Church Unites Maker of the Heavens Third World Vision (2017) www.worldchurchunites.org By Bob Marovich Gospel music has a higher purpose, and in the case of Maker of the Heavens, the purpose is more than spiritual. It’s about the very sustenance of life itself: water. World Church Unites, the Lincolnton, [...]
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century – Ryan P. Harper
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century sex rough BigTittyBre. By Ryan P. Harper. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 326 pp. (printed casebinding). Index. ISBN 978-1-4968-1090-8. $65 By Bob Marovich Rarely have television programs or video franchises received the microscopically detailed analysis that ethnographer Ryan [...]
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Special thanks to Joseph Middleton for alerting TBGB about this notice, found on the Atlanta Chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America website.Monday, June 25th, 2007. The Atlanta Chapter [...]
“Oh Clap Your Hands” Brenda Jefferson from A Time of Refreshing Scripture Music Group 2007 www.myspace.com/brendajeffersononline “Oh Clap Your Hands” is the radio single from Brenda Jefferson’s recently released collection [...]
“Walk Around Heaven All Day”The CaravansVee Jay 945 and VJLP 5058 (1964)[Also available on Collectables CD The Best of Vee-Jay Gospel, Vol. 4](NOTE: This essay was originally published in 1996; [...]
House of RefugeJim ByrnesBlack Hen Music 2007www.blackhenmusic.comIf in the past ten to fifteen years, gospel’s lyrical content hasn’t strayed too far from its origins, its musical foundation sure has. North [...]
From D.A. Johnson of Malaco Records: We regret to announce that Rev. Eddie Porter, Father of Tyrone & Paul Porter of The Christianaires Passed on Thursday, June 7, 2007. The [...]
From Eyeball Productions:The Gospel Discography 1943-1970 is the culmination of over forty years of research, starting with a column by Cedric Hayes called "Post War Gospel Records" in the fledgling [...]
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By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
