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The lord's songs in a strange land; two histories dig down to the roots of gospel music and the culture of sound in African American life
People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music by Robert Darden Continuum International Publishing Group October 2004, $24.95, ISBN 0-826-41436-2 ......(Continue Reading) Why gospel music is so hot
THE fastest-growing music segment is not rap; it's not R&B--the fastest-growing musical genre in America is the stirring, pulse-pounding, foot-stomping ......(Continue Reading)Various: Close Harmony: a History of Southern Gospel Music, Vol. 1, 1920-1955
VARIOUS Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel Music, Vol. 1, 1920-1955 Dualtone 01190 Dr. James R. Goff, author of Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel (UNC Press, 2002) serves as th...(Continue Reading)Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age
Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age By Jerma A. Jackson University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, N.C.), 2004, ISBN 0807855308....(Continue Reading)Ollabelle: what a friend they have in gospel music
There was a bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side, named after the corner of Ninth Street and venue C, where it once stood. "9C was tiny, a total dive," bassist Byron Isaacs says. "It w...(Continue Reading)
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