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Gayle F. Wald is a professor at George Washington University and the author of Crossing the Line. She wrote the liner notes for a critically acclaimed 2003 Rosetta Tharpe tribute album. Wald lives in Washington, D.C.
I talk about Sister Rosetta Tharpe all the time. She was black and queer and big and invented rock and roll. -Lizzo Wald will give you the story, from small-town Arkansas to the biggest stages in the country. -David Remnick, The New Yorker [Tharpe] has long been deserving of wider recognition and a place of honor in the field of music history. -Bonnie Raitt Mixing tireless reporting with nuanced and cultural insights, Wald's Shout, Sister, Shout! is about as good as musical reparations get. -Tony Green, Vibe Rosetta Tharpe was one of my first influences, one of the first people I heard sing. I'm glad Gayle Wald has done a book on her because people need to know. -Isaac Hayes Wald makes a good case that Tharpe's R&B spirituals played a key role in inventing rock. -Entertainment Weekly Seeing Sister Rosetta . . . really gave me a sense that this was a birthright of mine. -Celisse Henderson
