Music - Black Gospel Research

Abbington, James, ed. Readings in African American church music and worship. GIA Publications, 2001-2014.  Moody Arts Books ML3556 .R335 2001 v.1-2

Carpenter, Bil.  Uncloudy days : the gospel music encyclopedia. Backbeat Book, 2005. Moody Arts Books ML102.G6 C37 2005

Darden, Bob. People Get Ready! : a New History of Black Gospel Music. Continuum, 2004. Moody Arts Books ML3187 .D37 200

Heilbut, Anthony. The Gospel Sound : Good News and Bad Times . Updated and rev., 1st Limelight ed., Limelight Editions, 1985. Moody Arts Books ML3187 .H44 1985

Jackson, Jerma A. Singing in My Soul : Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age . University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Moody Arts Books ML3187 .J23 2004

Levine, Lawrence W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness : Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. Oxford University Press, 1977.  Jones General Collection GR103 .L48

Marovich, Robert M. A City Called Heaven : Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music. University of Illinois Press, 2015. (link through library catalog)

Moore, Allan F. The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Moody Arts Books ML3521 .C36 2002

Reagon, Bernice Johnson. We’ll Understand It Better by and by : Pioneering African American Gospel Composers. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Moody Arts Books ML390 .W274 1992

Southern, Eileen.  The music of black Americans : a history.  W.W. Norton, 1997. Moody Arts Books ML3556 .S74 1997.

Wald, Gayle. “Shout, Sister, Shout! : the Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.” Shout, Sister, Shout! : the Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Beacon Press, 2007.  (link through library catalog)