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Darden, Bob, 1954-
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Gospel music -- History and criticism.
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Darden, Bob, 1954-
Gospel music -- History and criticism.
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People
get
ready
! : a
new
history
of
Black
gospel
music
/ Robert Darden.
by
Darden, Bob, 1954-
Continuum, 2004.
Call #:
782.254 D216p
Subjects
Gospel
music
--
History
and criticism.
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Table of contents
ISBN:
9780826414366 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0826414362 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description:
xii, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes discography (p. 325-351), bibliographical references, and index.
Contents:
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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