Darden, Bob,  1954-, <br/><br/>
People get ready! :  a new history of Black gospel music /  [print] 
Robert Darden. 
 - New York :  Continuum,  (c)2004. 
 - xii, 424 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
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<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004012677 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA472283  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013007633  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Gospel music--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML3187.D216.P467 2004 ML3187