Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry

Kevin Mungons is a writer for print and digital platforms and editorial manager at Moody Bible Institute. Douglas Yeo was bass trombonist of the Boston Symphony and has taught trombone at Wheaton College and Arizona State University.

• CoverTitle pageCopyrightContentsIntroduction1. Prologue2. Southern Roots and Early Years3. Gospel Songs and Urban Revivalism4. Commercial Gospel Music5. New Technology to Promote an Old Story6. The Mission of Rainbow Records7. Spirituals and Minstrelsy8. Jim Crow Revivalism Meets the Klan9. Preserving and Exporting the Gospel Songs10. Falling Out of Step at the Close of an Era11. Epilogue: "It's Up to You, Rody, to Free Them"AcknowledgmentsNotesIndexBack cover

"Well-written, thoroughly researched, and altogether engaging. . . Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is a work of substantial scholarship, which will come as no surprise to those familiar with Yeo's previous work." --Historic Brass Society  "Well-written, thoroughly researched, and all together engaging. . . Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is a work of substantial scholarship, which will come as no surprise to those familiar with Yeo's previous work." --Historic Brass Society Journal  "Mungons and Yeo's book, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry, combines painstaking research with insightful sociological and musicological analysis. Although co-authored, the book has a unified narrative. . . . Even if one has only marginal interest in Home Rodeheaver as a person, this scholarly description of American society at the turn of the 20th century proves fascinating and illuminating." --International Trombone Association