The Gospel Sound
Subtitle: Good News and Band Times - 25th Anniversary Edition
Edition: 25 anniversary edition
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780879100346
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Rock & pop; Sacred & religious music; Religious - Gospel; History and criticism; Music; Music/Songbooks; Music / Gospel; Gospel music; African American musicians; Black musicians
Notes: "Updated and with a new discography" - cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The gospel moment; title: Part one : Building the gospel highway.; title: "Sallie Martin's outta sight"; title: "I get these special vibrations" : Thomas A. Dorsey; title: The head of the house : Ira Tucker; title: Mahalia the queen; title: "The women had fits" : the Soul Stirrers; title: Part two : The gospel pioneers.; title: Reverend Brewster and the Ward Singers; title: Reverend Julius Cheeks and Reverend Claude Jeter : the fathers of soul; title: "Bessie can moan and move a mountain"; title: Professor Alex Bradford : "the singing rage"; title: "I won't let go of my faith" : Dorothy Love Coates; title: Part three : The Holiness church.; title: The Holiness church; title: The traveling saints; title: The crown prince of Gospel : James Cleveland; title: "I've been way out on the stormy raging sea" : Marion Williams; title: The young singers; title: Part four : The gospel life.; title: "You may never go to prison"; title: "Turn your radio on" : 1969; title: A weekend with the Campbells; title: Epilogue : "Looked down the line and I wondered" (1971); title: Postscript; title: Postscript II (1997); title: Discography; title: Index of names; title: Index of names II; title: Index of song titles