Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age / Jerma A. Jackson.

By:

Jackson, Jerma A [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: African American music referencePublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780807863619
0807863610
0807855308
9780807855300

Other title:

Black gospel music in a secular age

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Singing in my soul.DDC classification:

782.25/4 22

LOC classification:

ML3187 .J23 2004eb

Other classification:

24.65
LS 48400

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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.

Summary: 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.

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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 women played in popularizing gospel.