People get ready! : a new history of Black gospel music /
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New York :
Continuum,
2004.
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Table of 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.