The Village Voice, July 14th, 2004
MUSICOLOGY
CRAIG WERNER
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Prof's soul story subsumes civil rights and black power in gospel vision
University of Wisconsin Afro-American studies professor Craig Werner thinks the essence of "the gospel vision" is believing in something bigger than yourself, such as a just America. Welcoming into the fold those whose name for God is "Jah, Allah, Yamaya, or-like funkmaster George Clinton-'the Mothership,' " he's so not a purist that his 1999 A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the...
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