TY - BOOK AU - Jackson,Jerma A. TI - Singing in my soul: black gospel music in a secular age SN - 9780807863619 AV - ML3187 .J23 2004eb U1 - 782.25/4 22 PY - 2004///] CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Gospel music KW - History and criticism KW - African Americans KW - Music KW - Popular music KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Gospel KW - Histoire et critique KW - Noirs américains KW - Musique KW - Musique populaire KW - Aspect social KW - États-Unis KW - MUSIC KW - Religious KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Gospelsong KW - gnd KW - Gospels KW - gtt KW - Populaire muziek KW - USA KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=127500 ER -