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Uh, they had as their protégé at the time of the 1930s, a young girl who had made her way from New Orleans to Chicago. She was a hairdresser, a big woman, with a lovely voice, Mahalia Jackson.
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And so the three of these- these three persons: Thomas Dawson, Sally Martin, and Mahalia Jackson toured the midwest, singing the compositions of one, Thomas Darsey.
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Out of that group, or at least out of the Chicago area from whence they came, there came, uh, a young man by the name of James Cleveland.
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Uh, James Cleveland, who was called the Crowned Prince of gospel music, perhaps, the reigning, uh, creative person now, moved to California.
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And there he has started something called the Gospel Singers workshop and they, since 19-
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Well, what will we say, the 1960s, thereabouts, they have been meeting. And he is a consummate composer, so the group that is singing comes out of this very rich environment tradition.
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They are women singers, as I said. They stand on the shoulders of the Davis sisters, the Caravans, uh, the Ward singers, and such soloists, such as Mahalia Jackson, Shirley Jackson, persons of that sort.
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Uh, since this is a workshop and you will be tested over this thing, we might give you some take-home information, things you might want to pick up.
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Perhaps the most definitive work on gospel music now published is by a man named Tony Halbert and it's entitled "The Gospel Sound: Good News for Bad Times", which is sort of a, um, it gives you an overview of the total gospel scene.
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Who were the founders? Who were some of the outstanding quartets? Male, female, etc.