附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-184) and index.
Exuberance or restraint : music and religion after Reconstruction -- I just do what the Lord say : gospel as women's missionary work -- Churches and entrepreneurs : the grassroots campaign for gospel -- With her spirituals in swing : Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel, and popular culture -- Between religion and commerce : gospel in the postwar era.
摘要:Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers and demonstrating the important role women played in popularizing gospel.
