Jerry Zolten                  

Associate Professor, Communication Arts & Sciences and American Studies

Author of 

Great God A'Mighty! - 
The Dixie Hummingbirds:
Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music

 

 


Executive Producer of Beautiful Stars CD

Isaac Freeman and the Bluebloods

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

With the late James Hill
of the Fairfield Four 
waiting to go on 
Late Night with David Letterman, 1997

 

 

 
On tour with the Fairfield Four and the Dixie Hummingbirds/Rochester, New York, 1991 

 
From left to right:  Rev. Willie Richardson, James Walker, Paul Owens, Ira Tucker, Howard Carroll, Jerry Zolten, Wilson Waters, Isaac Freeman, Robert Hamlett, James S. Hill
 
 

Selected Recent Works:   

Publications 

"The Rough Rugged Road of Bumble Bee Slim," Living Blues,  #135, September/October,  1997.

"Terry Evans: I Write About People Coming Together," Living Blues, #148, November/December, 1999.

"The Effect of Reticence on College Students' Use of Electronic Mail to Communicate with Faculty," Communication Education, Volume 50/Number 2, April, 2001.  With Kelly, Lynne, and Duran, Robert

"I Ain't Lyin'!: The Unexpurgated Truth about Rudy Ray Moore," Living Blues, #157, May/June, 2001

Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music, Oxford University Press, 2003.

Recordings Produced

Wreckin' the House, The Fairfield Four, Dead Reckoning Records, July, 1998.

Beautiful Stars, Isaac Freeman & the Bluebloods, Lost Highway Records, April, 2002.

 

Courses:

Communication Arts & Sciences 100: Speaking in Public

American Studies 105:  The Cultural Roots of Rock 'n' Roll

Integrative Arts 100W:  Stand-Up Comedy and Social Change

 

134 Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts
Penn State Altoona
814- 949-5113

jjz1@psu.edu