Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview: Genesis of Black Gospel Music
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Robert L. Taylor
R.L Taylor is Professor of the Graduate School at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, USA. Awarded the Daniel C. Drucker Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering in 2005, the Gauss-Newton Award and Congress Medal by the International Association for Computational Mechanics in 2002, and the Von Neumann Medal by the US Association for Computational Mechanics in 1999.
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Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview - Robert L. Taylor
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Interview
Chronological List Copyright Dates of Thomas Andrew Dorsey’s Music
Bibliography
Endnotes
Preface
Thomas A. Dorsey—not to be confused with the white band leader of the same name—was born in Villa Rica, Georgia, in 1899. The eldest son of an itinerate Baptist preacher, Mr. Dorsey enthusiastically spoke to the writer of this paper of his travels with his father. We went to many places. I got to know a little more about that life than the average person… that’s when I first began to get to know people—what I mean is know the inside of people, musically and all other ways.
When Dorsey moved from Atlanta to Chicago, he picked up the name of Georgia Tom.
Georgia Tom had blues in his mind as well as in his hands and feet,
says Arna Bontemps.¹. He had composed Ma Rainey’s popular theme music ‘Rain on the ocean / Rain on the deep blue sea’ as well as scores of other blues. If the blues idiom meant anything to you, he was your boy.
².
Within two years, Georgia Tom was able to turn a Saturday night stomp upside down with his playing.
In those days, however, Dorsey had more on his mind than playing piano. For one thing, there was a girl.³. When she looked at Tom he felt like a boy dazzled by the sun. Then, quite suddenly, her family moved to Birmingham, carrying the daughter with them.
It broke Tom’s heart.⁴. In his mood… ambition was born.
⁵.
First he tried, with such local help as he could get, to teach himself harmony, composition, instrumentation, and arranging. He went to work at the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, which made the wages of a Georgia Stomp musician look sick. The steel mill all but did his thin 128-pound body in, but he kept at it until he could get a five-piece orchestra together.
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This orchestra marked the beginning of Georgia Tom. It gave him piano practice and it enabled him to earn money by playing for parties in the steel mill communities of Gary and South Chicago. It provided exercise in the making of band arrangements and piano scores, and it left time for study at the Chicago College of