Gospel category: 23 books
by Dr. Joan Rucker-Hillsman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This book is designed for the general reader of gospel music, as well as those who incorporate gospel into their lesson plans on the academic level. “Gospel Music: An African American Art Form” provides music information on the heritage of gospel from its African roots, Negro spirituals, traditional...
So You Want to Sing Gospel
A Guide for Performers
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
There are few works in existence that teach gospel singing and even fewer that focus on what gospel soloists need to know. In So You Want to Sing Gospel, Trineice Robinson-Martin offers the first resource to help individual gospel singers at all levels make the most of their primary instrument—their...
Singing in My Soul
Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating...
Close Harmony
A History of Southern Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Close Harmony traces the development of the music known as southern gospel from its antebellum origins to its twentieth-century emergence as a vibrant musical industry driven by the world of radio, television, recordings, and concert promotions.
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Faces of Praise!
Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This full-color photo gift book that turns chart-topping contemporary gospel music into Bible-based devotions is a three-way blessing for readers: a perfect companion to favorite gospel recordings, an encouraging devotional and a unique photo collection.
FACES OF PRAISE! turns your favorite...
Downhome Gospel
African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Jerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida. She examines African American sacred music outside of Sunday church-related activities, showing that singing conventions and anniversary...
Make a Joyful Noise
My 25 Years in Gospel Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2000
Make a Joyful Noise chronicles Dr. Bobby Jones' 25 years in gospel music. Dr. Bobby Jones is the host and executive producer of the world's number one gospel television program with a viewership exceeding five million. He shares with readers his own personal journey from an improverished childhood...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music is the first comprehensive reference to cover this important American musical form. Coverage includes all aspects of both African-American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends.
Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds
Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2003
From the Jim Crow world of 1920s Greenville, South Carolina, to Greenwich Village's Café Society in the '40s, to their 1974 Grammy-winning collaboration on "Loves Me Like a Rock," the Dixie Hummingbirds have been one of gospel's most durable and inspiring groups. Now, Jerry Zolten tells...
The Fan Who Knew Too Much
Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” —Rolling Stone), Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann (“Electric”—Harold Brodkey).
In...
Woke Me Up This Morning
Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Nothing but Love in God’s Water
Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and on through the Montgomery bus boycott. This second volume continues the journey, chronicling the role this music played in energizing and...
by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play."-The Guardian
"Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work."-Daily News
"Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . . but...
by Ace Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Turn Your Radio On tells the fascinating stories behind gospel music's most unforgettable songs, including "Amazing Grace," "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," "He Touched Me," "I'll Fly Away," "Were You There?" and many more. These are the songs that...
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