People get ready! : a new history of Black gospel music / Robert Darden. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Continuum, (c)2004.Description: xii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
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  • ML3187.D216.P467 2004
  • ML3187
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Contents:
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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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction ML3187.D37 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001451265

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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