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(MUSIC—GOSPEL.)
Group of 26 promotional photographs of gospel
singing groups.
Each approximately 8 x 10 inches. For the most part in excellent condi-
tion, several including The Carolina Crusaders, and The Mighty Sons of Glory. Signed by
all members.
SHOULD BE SEEN
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Vp, 1950’s-1970’s
[600/900]
Gospel, the traditional music of the Black Church, is at once the grandmother and grandfather of what
we call Soul Music, Rhythm and Blues, Blues, Rock n Roll and even to a degree Hip Hop. Its sources
are the early work songs, chants and shouts that had their roots in the every day life of the Africans
that were brought to the Americas as slave labor. These promotional photos are of some of the best
known groups of the last quarter of the 20th century.
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(MUSIC.) HERON, GIL SCOTT.
Gil Scott Heron. Brian Jackson the
Midnight Band, Grand Theft.
Original pen and brush black ink artwork for a poster,
22 x 14 inches, done on a sheet of some sort of semi-opaque plastic.
San Francisco, 1975
[800/1,200]
Gil Scott-Heron, poet, filmmaker, rapper, and “bluesologist” (1949-2011). He is credited with being
one of the earliest innovators in the realm of Hip Hop, influenced by the Last Poets. It was Heron
who famously said “The Revolution Will Not be Televised.”