Saints’ Paradise: Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer (Music Review)

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Saints’ Paradise: Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer (Music Review)

by Gavin James Campbell
Southern Cultures, Vol. 6, No. 1: Five-Year Anniversary Issue

Smithsonian Folkways, 1999

The United House of Prayer for All People, founded by Daddy Grace in the early part of the twentieth century, has never stinted on music. In the 1930s the Columbia, South Carolina, church was so raucous that it was sued as a public nuisance. Yet because the House of Prayer has traditionally frowned on public performances, much of its musical tradition has remained relatively unknown.

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