Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age /
Jackson, Jerma A.,
Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age / Black gospel music in a secular age Jerma A. Jackson. - 1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) : illustrations, portraits - African American music reference. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-184) and index.
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.
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 women played in popularizing gospel.
9780807863619 (electronic bk.) 0807863610 (electronic bk.) 0807855308 9780807855300 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807855300
00027332
2003024973
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
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ML3187 / .J23 2004eb
782.25/4
Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age / Black gospel music in a secular age Jerma A. Jackson. - 1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) : illustrations, portraits - African American music reference. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-184) and index.
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.
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 women played in popularizing gospel.
9780807863619 (electronic bk.) 0807863610 (electronic bk.) 0807855308 9780807855300 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807855300
00027332
2003024973
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
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ML3187 / .J23 2004eb
782.25/4