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Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age / Jerma A. Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Jerma A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gospel music--History and criticism.
- Gospel music.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Popular music--Social aspects--United States.
- Popular music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Restraint or exuberance : music and religion after Reconstruction
- I just do what the Lord say : gospel as women's missionary work
- Choirs, studios, and unions : 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-184) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890878144
- 9780807863619
- 0807863610
- OCLC:
- 70721060
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