Book Description
Clevelandís Gospel Music documents the history of black gospel music from the 1920s through the 1980s. The gospel quartet groups, radio announcers, solo artists, and promoters established Cleveland as the gospel singersí metropolitan hub. An integral part of Clevelandís history and its rich African-American community, gospel singers didnít sing for money or fame, but sang to the glory of God, often beyond the point of exhaustion. This work is a celebration of the past praises of those who sang tirelessly for some 60 years. ÝÝ

About the Author
Frederick Burton is a talented artist, musician, songwriter, and composer, whose life has been greatly influenced by these gospel quartet pioneers. Migrating from Chattanooga to Cleveland with his parents in 1965, Burton has spent the better part of his life singing and living among the gospel singers that he came to know, respect, and admire. His unquenchable thirst for gospel music and its history and evolution led him to tell the story of gospel music in Cleveland in this volume of Arcadiaís Black America series.

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Marking the progression of economic times in Cleveland, city planners began construction of the Terminal Tower, an office building standing 708 feet tall above the Cleveland Union Terminal in the 1920s, which the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (1996) contends was "the tallest building in the world outside New York until 1967." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Courtesy of Virginia Cross, Courtesy of Marva Bright, Bill Spivery, Courtesy of Brenda, Deep River Songbirds, Shields Brothers, Courtesy of Elizabeth Kinney, Arthur Turner, United States, Courtesy of Mona Boyd, Courtesy of Willie Mae Reese, Odessa Still, Courtesy of Ann Dudley, Courtesy of Eloise Burnett, Andrew Jackson, Courtesy of Claude Shields, Courtesy of the Cleveland Public Library, Johnny Haymon, New York, Courtesy of Alex Thomas, Courtesy of Charles Smith, Courtesy of Frederick Burton, Courtesy of Howard Sharp, Courtesy of Reverend Esyulaira, Courtesy of Robert Glover New!
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