Close Harmony
Subtitle: A History of Southern Gospel
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780807826812
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Sacred & religious music; Soul & Gospel; United States - General; History and criticism; Black Musicians And Their Music; Sacred Vocal Music; History; Music/Songbooks; Music; USA; History & Criticism - General; Religious - Gospel; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / General; Contemporary Christian music; Anthropology - Cultural; Gospel music
First sentence: Like most successful innovations in twentieth-century America, the gospel music industry emerged from a combination of forces that coalesced in the nineteenth.