Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age /

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Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers and demonstrating the important role wome...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jackson, Jerma A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Series:African American music reference.
Subjects:
Gospel music > History and criticism.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Popular music > Social aspects > United States.
Gospel > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains > Musique > Histoire et critique.
Musique populaire > Aspect social > États-Unis.
MUSIC > Religious > Gospel.
African Americans > Music
Gospel music
Popular music > Social aspects
Gospelsong
Gospels.
Populaire muziek.
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Exuberance or restraint : music and religion after Reconstruction
  • I just do what the Lord say : gospel as women's missionary work
  • Churches and entrepreneurs : the grassroots campaign for gospel
  • With her spirituals in swing : Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel, and popular culture
  • Between religion and commerce : gospel in the postwar era.

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