Singing in My Soul
Subtitle: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 5, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807828601
Subjects: Black studies; Sacred & religious music; Soul & Gospel; United States; Music; Gospel music; Music/Songbooks; Social aspects; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History & Criticism - General; Religious - Gospel; Women's Studies - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African Americans; History and criticism; Popular music
First sentence: In 1909 the renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers gathered in front of a recording company microphone to render the well-known spiritual "There Is a Balm in Gilead."