Those who enjoy gospel music strictly as a genre—as opposed to as a form of worship—may be put off by the first 10 minutes of Don McGlynn’s documentary Rejoice And Shout. With this film, McGlynn attempts to cover the intertwined history of gospel and the African-American experience, from slavery through the civil-rights movement and beyond. But Rejoice And Shout doesn’t start out in historical mode. It begins with one interview subject after another testifying to the power of God, and explaining how music affirms their faith. It’s hard to tell whether this opening salvo of ...
- 6/2/2011
- avclub.com
Reviewed by Bob Hill
(June 2011)
Directed by: Don McGlynn
Featuring: Smokey Robinson, Andrae Crouch, Mavis Staples, Ira Tucker, Marie Knight, Willa Ward and Ira Tucker Jr.
“Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.” –Psalms 33:3
This is the Deep South — Memphis, Tenn. Bible Country, USA. A land of crops and cotton, sweeping fields and schoolhouse churches. It’s a region that has seen more than its fair share of racial injustice and, more recently, natural catastrophe.
But all of that seems a million miles away come Sunday morning, drowned out by the sound of a million and one evangelicals, raising their voices in song.
It’s a time-honored tradition as old as the Negro spiritual itself, driven by an a capella harmony so powerful and true it’s come to represent both the struggle and salvation of African-Americans in the Bible Belt. It is the...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Don McGlynn
Featuring: Smokey Robinson, Andrae Crouch, Mavis Staples, Ira Tucker, Marie Knight, Willa Ward and Ira Tucker Jr.
“Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.” –Psalms 33:3
This is the Deep South — Memphis, Tenn. Bible Country, USA. A land of crops and cotton, sweeping fields and schoolhouse churches. It’s a region that has seen more than its fair share of racial injustice and, more recently, natural catastrophe.
But all of that seems a million miles away come Sunday morning, drowned out by the sound of a million and one evangelicals, raising their voices in song.
It’s a time-honored tradition as old as the Negro spiritual itself, driven by an a capella harmony so powerful and true it’s come to represent both the struggle and salvation of African-Americans in the Bible Belt. It is the...
- 5/31/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Bob Hill
(June 2011)
Directed by: Don McGlynn
Featuring: Smokey Robinson, Andrae Crouch, Mavis Staples, Ira Tucker, Marie Knight, Willa Ward and Ira Tucker Jr.
“Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.” –Psalms 33:3
This is the Deep South — Memphis, Tenn. Bible Country, USA. A land of crops and cotton, sweeping fields and schoolhouse churches. It’s a region that has seen more than its fair share of racial injustice and, more recently, natural catastrophe.
But all of that seems a million miles away come Sunday morning, drowned out by the sound of a million and one evangelicals, raising their voices in song.
It’s a time-honored tradition as old as the Negro spiritual itself, driven by an a capella harmony so powerful and true it’s come to represent both the struggle and salvation of African-Americans in the Bible Belt. It is the...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Don McGlynn
Featuring: Smokey Robinson, Andrae Crouch, Mavis Staples, Ira Tucker, Marie Knight, Willa Ward and Ira Tucker Jr.
“Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.” –Psalms 33:3
This is the Deep South — Memphis, Tenn. Bible Country, USA. A land of crops and cotton, sweeping fields and schoolhouse churches. It’s a region that has seen more than its fair share of racial injustice and, more recently, natural catastrophe.
But all of that seems a million miles away come Sunday morning, drowned out by the sound of a million and one evangelicals, raising their voices in song.
It’s a time-honored tradition as old as the Negro spiritual itself, driven by an a capella harmony so powerful and true it’s come to represent both the struggle and salvation of African-Americans in the Bible Belt. It is the...
- 5/31/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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