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The songbooks themselves, argues Harrison, "became an early evangelical technology for managing the disorienting effects of modernization through a continuous stream of new shape-note tunes" (65).

Ruebush and Kieffer's books also emphasized a new style of singing that distinguished them from other popular southern tunebooks.

Is Kirk Talley still alive? Trios or quartets predominate in their stead singing in "close harmony" about the individual soul's longing for redemption and salvation amid the stresses of modern life (34–36).

Aldine Sillman Kieffer (1840–1904). Typical positive character traits of Gemini include: Spontaneity, Brazenness, Action-orientation and Openness. Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music. This is a combination of several factors ranging from public school funding to repression of personal expression in rural Bible Belt communities. Sales and popularity have declined and new scandals have come and gone. Though publishers and song writers would not begin labeling it "gospel" music until later in the 1870s, the genre's early manifestation, according to Harrison, performed a kind of cultural work that provided evangelicals with melodies and messages that helped them find meaning and stability in a rapidly modernizing world. Harrison credits Aldine S. Kieffer, a former Confederate solider, and Ephraim Ruebush, a former Union soldier with laying the foundations for southern gospel's growth during Reconstruction and into the New South Era. Before the war, the two taught shape-note singing together and worked in the music printing company Kieffer's grandfather, the Mennonite Joseph Funk, owned. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference” (Romans 3:19, 21, 22).  In light of Kirk Franklin’s statement 12 years ago that homosexuality is a major problem today in Gospel music (Church Boy, p. Despite my own criticism of the power structures and privileges of repressive Christianity I found myself worrying that this phenomenon would eventually be forgotten. Though Jesse Aiken conceived of seven-shape notation in 1846, Ruebush-Kieffer songbooks like The Temple Star popularized the style of singing that Harrison argues anticipated the "melodic and harmonic developments that would come to define twentieth-century white gospel" (64). It is a spirituality that is non-dogmatic and non-judgmental. Vestal Goodman’s hairdos, dresses and vocal style drew her a number of gay male fans. His company sold songbooks not for use by ordinary singers but as "mementos of professional singers' popularity and fame" (85). It is not based on the absolute literal teaching of Scripture but on the ephemeral feeling of the fallen human heart.  Stevens claims to have been saved in 1969 when she was a teenager. In 1956, a performer named J. D. Sumner recorded a song in "flamboyant black dialect" (99). The annual performance pinnacle, the National Quartet Convention, shifted from its long-time location in Louisville, Ken., to the less accessible Pigeon Forge, Tenn., where Dolly Parton’s theme park, Dollywood, hosts a number of Southern Gospel artists. Songs sung from books like Southern Harmony relied on the four shape-note system and often used the pentatonic scale or other gapped scales that gave the music a more primitive and haunting air. Feel free to add the latest news, gossip, official contact information such as mangement phone number, cell phone number or email address, and your questions below. Are there any photos of Kirk Talley's hairstyle or shirtless? There might be.