Title: Sacred steel : inside an African American steel guitar tradition /
Authors: Stone, Robert L., 1944-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Church music African American churches.; Hawaiian guitar music History and criticism.; African American guitarists; African American church musicians.
Contents: Discovery -- The churches : beliefs, social milieu, and the development of the steel guitar -- Traditions -- Church meetings and the steel guitarist's role in them -- The steel guitar -- The Eason Brothers -- Little Willie and his talking guitar -- Henry Nelson : the liberace of sacred steel -- The Jewell Dominion -- Motor city steel -- Calvin Cooke -- Shaping the modern sound : pedal-steel guitar innovators Chuck Campbell and Glenn Lee -- Negotiating the new millennium.