Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age /

Jackson, Jerma A,

Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age / [print] Jerma A. Jackson. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2004. - xii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.



Exuberance or restraint: music and religion after Reconstruction -- I just do what the Lord say : gospel as women's missionary work -- Churches and entrepreneurs: the grassroots campaign for gospel -- With her spirituals in swing : Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel, and popular culture -- Between religion and commerce : gospel in the postwar era.



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Gospel music--History and criticism.
African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
Popular music--Social aspects.--United States

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