People get ready! : a new history of Black gospel music

Darden, Bob, 1954-

2004, Book , xii, 424 pages :

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Subjects
- Gospel music--History and criticism.
- Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection.

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Publication information:	New York : Continuum, 2004.
ISBN:	0826414362 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN:	0826417523 (pbk.)
Language:	English
Record ID:	269464
Format:	Regular Print Book
Physical description:	xii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Date acquired:	Not available
More creator details:	Robert Darden.
Contents note:	Why gospel music? -- Gospel's African roots -- The rise of spirituals in North America -- What spirituals are, what spirituals mean -- The American Civil War -- Reconstruction, the jubilee singers, and minstrelsy -- The foundations of gospel: the Black exodus, barbershop quartets, the Pentecostals, and jack-leg preachers -- The fathers of gospel: William H. Sherwood, Charles A. Tindley, and Thomas A. Dorsey -- Chicago and the rise of gospel music -- Three divas: Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Ward, and Mahalia Jackson -- The great gospel groups: six unforgettable voices -- Gospel on the freedom highway -- Gospel's evolution: from Alex Bradford to James Cleveland to Andrae Crouch -- The last great male quartets -- Contemporary gospel: six defining voices.
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