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People get ready! : a new history of Black gospel music / Robert Darden. New York : Continuum, 2004. ISBN:  9780826414366 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0826414362 (hardcover : alk. paper) Description:  xii, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 782.254 D216p Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sheet Harbour Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 782.254 D216p Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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