The Story of Gospel Music
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Canada DVD Cover InformationActor: James Cleveland, Sister Rosetta TharpeBrand: Warner Brothers DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 90 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-01-18 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: BBC Warner Movie Reviews of The Story of Gospel MusicMovie Review: Everyone gets a swing at it (almost).Overall, a good balance of information and inspiration. Some of the "talking heads" are overused, others underused. The same goes for the performers. Some is familiar footage (especially Mahalia); some less so (Rosetta Tharpe). The film gives the viewer just enough of the Pentecostal, "Sanctified" tradition of gospel music-making to bring credibility and color to the words of the consulted authorities. Too much emphasis on emotive, collective singing would have worn thin just as quickly as too much intellectualizing. Perhaps there's excessive recitation of familiar history by formally attired expert-types, familiar ground about oppression and its positive outcomes (in story and song), though the film does manage to single out some of the key igniters and keepers of the flame.
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