Sacred music of the secular city
Subtitle: from blues to rap
By: edited by Jon Michael Spencer.
Series: Black sacred music -- v. 6, no. 1
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Notes: "A special issue of Black sacred music: a journal of theomusicology".

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-297) and index.
Table of contents: value: Blues: The ethos of the blues / Larry Neal; value: From Black to blues / Dwight D. Andrews; value: The blues as a secular religion / Rod Gruver; value: The blues : a secular spiritual / James H. Cone; value: The mythology of the blues / Jon Michael Spencer; value: Jazz: New world a'comin : religious perspectives on the legacy of Duke Ellington / Mark Sumner Harvey; value: Some memories of Duke Ellington's premier sacred jazz concert / Eloise McKinney-Johnson; value: From the heart : a reflection on the essence of jazz / Mtumishi St. Julien; value: Howling with the wolves : Paul Winter's earth jazz / Jay McDaniel; value: On jazzology : a rapsody / J. Michael Jarrett; value: Soul: Keep on pushing : the Impressions / William C. Turner; value: Keep on rollin' along : the Temptations and soul therapy / Nicholas Cooper-Lewter; value: In memory of Marvin Gaye / Cornel West; value: Rock: The Catholic imagination of Bruce Springsteen / Andrew M. Greeley; value: Like a Catholic : Madonna's challenge to her church / Andrew M. Greeley; value: Sex and suicide / Cornel West; value: Tracy Chapman : Jedermann, prophet, or cultural narrator? / Thomas Poole; value: Rap: Rap culture, the Church, and modern American society / Michael Eric Dyson; value: Rights