TY  - BOOK
AU  - Darden,Bob
TI  - People get ready!: a new history of Black gospel music 
AV  - ML3187.D216.P467 2004 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Gospel music
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes discography (pages 325-351), bibliographical references, and index; 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; 2
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004012677.html
ER  -