Mavis Staples

REJOICE & SHOUT covers the 200 year history of African-American Christianity, featuring the legends of Gospel music, including The Staple Singers, The Clara Ward Singers, The Dixie Hummingbirds, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Culled from hundreds of hours of music, tracing the evolution of gospel music through its many styles: the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing, the emergence of 'soul,'...

In a sequel of sorts to Purple Rain, the artist formerly known as Prince struggles musically with Morris Day for control of the nightclub that the two co-own in this dramatic musical fantasy. There is the power of faith--in oneself and in a higher power. There is the power of love. There is the never-ending struggle between good and bad. And there is the power of music. Graffiti Bridge.