Jackson, Jerma A.

Singing in my soul black gospel music in a secular age / [electronic resource] : Jerma A. Jackson. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004. - xii, 193 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-184) and index.

Restraint or exuberance : music and religion after Reconstruction -- I just do what the Lord say : gospel as women's missionary work -- Choirs, studios, and unions : 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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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Gospel music--History and criticism.
African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
Popular music--Social aspects--United States.


Electronic books.

ML3187 / .J23 2004eb

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