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Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America
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by Nick Salvatore
Sales Rank: 644673
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$27.95
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on 6-20-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 432 pages
Published by: Little, Brown and Company February 3, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0316160377
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0316160377
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
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C. L. Franklin, father of the "Queen of Soul," Aretha Franklin, was the original country preacher, embodying the hopes, dreams, and insecurities of southern blacks who sought to survive with dignity in the North. Salvatore recounts Franklin's struggles from sharecropper roots in Mississippi, his early career as a minister in Memphis, and his more than thirty years at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. Franklin's life spanned the Depression through the post-civil rights era and reflects the struggle of a generation that moved from rural to urban culture and the parallel struggle within the black Baptist Church from conservatism to social and political activism. Franklin's limited formal education did not stifle his desire to learn and imagine possibilities beyond those promised in eternal salvation. His personal virtues and vices are interwoven in this recollection of the complex religious, political, and commercial life of a city dominated by the automobile industry and a union history with a racist undercurrent. This well-researched and scholarly, but accessible, biography reflects changes wrought by the black church on the broader American society. Vernon Ford
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Angela D. Dillard, New York Times Book Review
"Salvatore . . . tapped into the soul that moved Franklin in song and sermon and that thrived beneath the beat of Motown.
Reader Reviews
Readers interested in both black church music and black history will relish Singing In A Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, The Black Church, And The Transformation Of America. More than just a biography of C.L. Franklin, Singing In A Strange Land uses Franklin's background to explore both African American religion and musical development in America. Salvatore spent eight years extensively researching, including interviewing Franklin's associates, to develop a winning biography which includes so much more than civil rights history alone.
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