From Spirituals to Swing
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Gospel Crossover
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3028055 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gayle Wald (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 387-416 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aq.2003.0031 |
| OpenAlex | W1981647186 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
Rosetta Tharpe was gospel music's first national star, one of its earliest recording artists, and its pre-eminent crossover figure of the 1940s, the decade of gospel's emergence as "popular" music. Such popularization of gospel held special significance for Tharpe as an African American female musician who negotiated the different modes of femininity available to her as, alternately, a popular or gospel entertainer. Although Tharpe earned scorn in some quarters for making music that confused the sacred/secular division, she took pleasure in, and found agency through, a constant shuttling between spheres
Agency (philosophy · Art · Entertainment · Gospel · Literature · Pleasure · Sister · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Latin American and Latino Studies · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |