Making A Joyful Noise
Rejoice and Shout Chronicles History of Gospel Music
Evelyn Santana
Bazan PR
(BLACK PR WIRE) – “No wonder the music is so beautiful. God’s on their side.” Perhaps the most intense and emotional music you can ever hear is the best of African-American Gospel music. Packed with evocative photos, rare audio recordings, stirring film and TV performances, REJOICE AND SHOUT covers the 200 year musical history of African-American Christianity.
Culled from hundreds of hours of music, REJOICE AND SHOUT features the crème de la crème of Gospel music, tracing the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into Gospel, the emergence of Soul, and the blending of Rap and Hip Hop elements. Gospel music also walked in step with the story of African-American culture - slavery, hardscrabble rural existence and plantation work, the exodus to major cities, the Depression, World War II, civil rights and empowerment.
Years in the making, REJOICE AND SHOUT captures so much of what is special about this music and African-American Christianity – the sermonizing, the heart felt testimonials, the hard hollering, and of course the inspiring music. A Magnolia Pictures release of a Deep Rivers production, REJOICE AND SHOUT is produced by Joe Lauro, executive produced by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner and directed by Don McGlynn.
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Born: Durham, NC
Graduate of Hillside High School class of ‘77
Alumni: University Chapel Hill, New York University and Walden University
Currently resides in San Diego, CA
Founder and CEO Human Communication Institute, LLC, Founded in 2005
HCI, LLC is a national and international Communication Consulting Firm, specializing in communication effectiveness training for personal and organizational leadership development, using her highly acclaimed Communication Staircase Model™, www.hci-global.com.
Prior to opening the Human Communication Institute, PS was a full-time, tenured Professor and worked for a variety of institutions helping to build Speech Communication Departments and Programs. Teaching institutions included: San Diego City and Mesa Colleges (CA), Clark Atlanta University, Georgia Perimeter (Dekalb College) (GA), Bunker Hill College, Northeastern University, (MA) MiraCosta College and Southwestern College (CA). In addition, she worked as a professional actor, musician, choreographer and director of Community Theater for many years.
Published author specializing in Personal Development using WORD Power as her major focus of writing: Poetry, Short Stories, Business Articles, Scholarly articles and Books.
In addition, PS enjoys writing about historical and current issues relevant to African American personal and community social health and enrichment.
Authored Books:
The Art and Science of Communication: Tools for Effective Communication in the Workplace, John Wiley & Sons, 2008
The Laws of Communication, (contributor) John Wiley & Sons, 2009
Wake Up Women! (contributor) 2009
Hobbies include: Acting, dancing, reading, cooking, mentoring youth, caring for animals and the elderly, and international travel