Singing in my soul
Subtitle: black gospel music in a secular age
By: Jerma A. Jackson
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Gospel music -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Social aspects -- United States
Genres: Music
Description: Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating the important role women played in popularizing gospel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-184) and index
Table of contents: title: Exuberance or restraint : music and religion after Reconstruction; title: I just do what the Lord say : gospel as women's missionary work; title: Churches and entrepreneurs : the grassroots campaign for gospel; title: With her spirituals in swing : Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel, and popular culture; title: Between religion and commerce : gospel in the postwar era