The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times

by Heilbut, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780879100346
• ISBN10: 0879100346
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

This book relays the complete history of gospel music, paying special attention to the relationship between gospel and other African American musical forms in America such as jazz and RandB. It discusses specific gospel music singers as well as the world of the gospel church itself. Includes black-and-white photos.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Gospel Moment
"Sallie Martin's Outta Sight"	p. 3
"I Get These Special Vibrations": Thomas A. Dorsey	p. 21
The Head of the House: Ira Tucker	p. 37
Mahalia the Queen	p. 57
"The Women Had Fits": The Soul Stirrers	p. 75
Reverend Brewster and the Ward Singers	p. 97
Reverend Julius Cheeks and Reverend Claude Jeter: The Fathers of Soul	p. 115
"Bessie Can Moan and Move a Mountain"	p. 131
Professor Alex Bradford: "The Singing Rage"	p. 145
"I Won't Let Go of My Faith": Dorothy Love Coates	p. 159
The Holiness Church	p. 173
The Traveling Saints	p. 187
The Crown Prince of Gospel: James Cleveland	p. 205
"I've Been Way Out on the Stormy Raging Sea": Marion Williams	p. 221
The Young Singers	p. 237
"You May Never Go to Prison"	p. 255
"Turn Your Radio On", 1969	p. 265
A Weekend with the Campbells	p. 283
Epilogue: "Looked Down the Line and I Wondered" (1971)	p. 295
Postscript	p. 301
Postscript II (1997)	p. 333
Acknowledgments	p. 353
Discography	p. 355
Index of Names	p. 381
Index of Names II	p. 391
Index of Song Titles	p. 397
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