Spencer Kimball's Record Collection: Essays on Mormon Music

by Michael Hicks

At times jubilant, at times elegiac, this set of ten essays by music historian Michael Hicks navigates topics that range from the inner musical life of Joseph Smith to the Mormon love of blackface musicals, from endless wrangling over hymnbooks to the compiling of Mormon folk and exotica albums in the 1960s. It also offers a brief memoir of what happened to LDS Church President Spencer Kimball's record collection and a lengthy, brooding piece on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560852860
• ISBN13: 9781560852865
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Signature Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"