Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music (Music in American Life)
 "A significant contribution to understanding Southern white gospel music and evangelical religious practice. Harrison treats seriously a music that has long been dismissed and neglected as simplistic and is thus vastly understudied."--Jeff Todd Titon, author ofPowerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church "A compelling and eloquent first book-length critical analysis of the music and social context of modern Southern gospel. Truly one couldn't conjure up a scholar better equipped to write on this topic, which Harrison addresses with notable authority and ambition."--David W. Stowe, author ofNo Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism"Resists facile caricature and simplistic interpretation of a musical tradition which, although it has demonstrated global appeal, remains linked to rural white Southern fundamentalism. . . . Harrison's book complicates our sense of who 'we' are and where that 'beautiful shore' may be. He makes us believe that even within fundamentalist evangelicalism, these borders are not nearly so fixed as we might have supposed."--Religion Dispatches"A powerful and effective sample of self-reflexive scholarship."--Southern Spaces