People get ready! : a new history of Black gospel music /
Darden, Bob,1954-
New York : Continuum,
2004.
Includes discography (p. 325-351), bibliographical references, and index.
Why gospel music? -- Gospel's African roots -- The rise of spirituals in North America -- What spirituals are, what spirituals mean -- The American Civil War -- Reconstruction, the jubilee singers, and minstrelsy -- The foundations of gospel: the Black exodus, barbershop quartets, the Pentecostals, and jack-leg preachers -- The fathers of gospel: William H. Sherwood, Charles A. Tindley, and Thomas A. Dorsey -- Chicago and the rise of gospel music -- Three divas: Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Ward, and Mahalia Jackson -- The great gospel groups: six unforgettable voices -- Gospel on the freedom highway -- Gospel's evolution: from Alex Bradford to James Cleveland to Andrae Crouch -- The last great male quartets -- Contemporary gospel: six defining voices.
Gospel music