People get ready! : a new history of Black gospel music /

Main Author: Darden, Bob, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Continuum, 2004.
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245 1 |a People get ready! :  |b a new history of Black gospel music /  |c Robert Darden. 
260 1 |a New York :  |b Continuum,  |c 2004. 
300 1 |a xii, 424 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 1 |a Includes discography (p. 325-351), bibliographical references, and index. 
505 1 |a 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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