Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age /

Jackson, Jerma A.,

Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age / Jerma A. Jackson. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004. - xii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-184) and index.

Exuberance or restraint: music and religion after Reconstruction -- I just do what the Lord say : gospel as women's missionary work -- Churches and entrepreneurs: 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.

0807828602 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807855308 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780807855300 (paperback)

2003024973


Gospel music--History and criticism.
African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
Popular music--Social aspects--United States.

ML3187 / .J23 2004

782.25/4