CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Gospel Music, White — The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 12: Music
- Key
- wolfe2008-gospel-music-white
- Authors
- Wolfe, Charles K.
- Issued
- 2008
- Type
- chapter
- Container
- The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 12: Music
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Publisher place
- Chapel Hill
- Pages
- 68-73
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Claims
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White southern gospel music is associated with vocal quartets or family groups singing in three- or four-part harmony. After the Civil War, as four-shape systems lost favor, Aldine S. Kieffer's publishing company (begun in 1866 with Ephriam Reubusch) campaigned to spread seven-shape notation through normal singing schools, periodicals and songbooks. James D. Vaughan's publishing company sent quartets of its singing teachers to tour the South, and the classic southern gospel quartet of four men and a piano comes from Vaughan's innovations. In the early 1950s the newly emerging bluegrass bands often borrowed gospel repertoire and quartet singing styles.
"To many southerners, though, white gospel is associated with vocal quartets or family groups, singing in three- or four-part harmony, accompanied by a piano, guitar, or other stringed instruments. ... After the war, as the older four-shape systems lost favor, Kieffer began his company in 1866 with an old friend, Ephriam Reubusch ... and began a 50-year campaign to popularize the seven-shape note system. ... Most important of all, though, he used quartets made up of his singing teachers to tour the South, giving free concerts of Vaughan's music. ... The classic southern gospel quartet—four men and a piano—comes from Vaughan's innovations. ... while the newly emerging bluegrass bands often borrowed gospel repertoire and quartet singing styles."
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