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  • You Make Us Feel Young Again!

    by Rick McKeon ...
    This is a collection of funny and inspiring stories from some of my rest home singalongs.To play these gigs has been one of the greatest blessings of my life. Audrey's Angels in Phoenix, Arizona provided me with the opportunity to entertain the elderly living in nursing homes in the metro Phoenix area. For this, I will always be grateful.These nursing home residents have spent their lives as ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Worship Old and New

    A reexamination of the actual practice of worship that goes beyond the merely academic to provide a practical perspective through the eyes of the worship leader and the congregation.The most effective approach to worship is one that blends historical and traditional practices with contemporary elements. Worship Old and New is a scholarly, up-to-date, and thought-provoking resource for anyone ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • When Sunday Comes

    Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

    Series series Music in American Life
    Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music. Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Wasn’t That a Mighty Day

    African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster

    by Luigi Monge ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best History in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, R&B, Gospel, Hip Hop, or Soul Music from the Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsWasn’t That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Walking the Line

    Country Music Lyricists and American Culture

    An insightful and wide-ranging look at one of America’s most popular genres of music, Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture examines how country songwriters engage with their nation’s religion, literature, and politics. Country fans have long encountered the concept of walking the line, from Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line” to Waylon Jennings’s “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Voices of Black Folk

    The Sermons of Reverend A. W. Nix

    Series series American Made Music Series
    Recipient of a 2023 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, R&B, Gospel, Hip Hop, or Soul Music from the Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsIn the late 1920s, Reverend A. W. Nix (1880–1949), an African American Baptist minister born in Texas, made fifty-four commercial recordings of his sermons on phonographs in Chicago. On these recordings, Nix presented vocal ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Virginia's Blues, Country, and Gospel Records, 1902-1943

    An Annotated Discography

    by Kip Lornell ...
    During the years before World War II, hundreds of traditional musicians were sought out by commercial record companies, brought to New York or into local—often makeshift—studios, to cut recordings that would be marketed as "race" and "hillbilly" music. Virginia was home to scores of these performers, several of whom were to become internationally known. Among them were the Carter Family, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • To Do This, You Must Know How

    Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition

    Series series American Made Music Series
    To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals with formal choral music disciplines and established a permanent bond between spiritual ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • To Do This, You Must Know How

    Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition

    Series series American Made Music Series
    To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals with formal choral music disciplines, and established a permanent bond between spiritual ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Whitney I Knew

    by BeBe Winans ...
    A virtual album of BeBe Winans' treasured memories of his friend and "sister," Whitney Houston.In the years between the first time BeBe Winans and Whitney Houston met in 1985, to the day he delivered the tribute that touched a watching nation at Houston's funeral, a deep and unique friendship bloomed and thrived. They considered each other family in the truest sense of the word. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The School of Arizona Dranes

    Gospel Music Pioneer

    by Timothy Dodge ...
    Arizona Dranes (1889-1963) was a true musical innovator whose recordings made for the Okeh label during the years 1926-1928 helped lay the foundations for what would soon be known as gospel music. Her unique blend of ragtime, barrelhouse, and boogie woogie piano plus her exciting and emotional Pentecostal style of singing influenced the development of gospel music for the next forty years and ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • The Rise of Gospel Blues

    The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church

    Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as Michael W. Harris's history of gospel blues reveals. Tracing the rise of gospel blues as seen through the career of its founding figure, Thomas Andrew Dorsey, Harris tells the story of the most prominent person in the advent ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions. The book's ... Read more

    $148.99 USD

  • The Mahalia Jackson Reader

    Edited by Mark Burford ...
    Series series Readers on American Musicians Series
    Born in New Orleans before migrating to Chicago, Mahalia Jackson (1911-72) is undoubtedly the most widely known black gospel singer, having achieved fame among African American communities in the 1940s then finding a wide audience among non-black U.S. and international audiences after she signed with major label Columbia Records in 1954. The newest entry in OUP's celebrated Readers on American ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Journey

    The Inspiration and Message Behind the Music

    by Rosetta Perry ...
    The book, "The Journey," is titled after my first CD project. It is all about the process I went through from beginning to end to record my first CD. The Inspiration and message behind the music tell the story of why I wrote each song. I opened up about what was going on in my life that contributed to the songs. I share the scriptures that inspired me and the message I wanted to convey to the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Hope of the Gospel

    If our future is not secured and satisfied by God then we are going to be excessively anxious. This results either in paralyzing fear or in self-managed, greedy control. We end up thinking about ourselves, our future, our problems and our potential, and that keeps us from loving.In other words, hope is the birthplace of Christian self-sacrificing love. That's because we just let God take care of ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gospel at Colonus

    by Lee Breuer ...
    A founding member of the acclaimed New York-based company Mabou Mines, Breuer's gifts as a writer and director have have made him a mainstay of the theatrical avant-garde. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The God and Gigs Study Guide

    Succeed as a Musician Without Sacrificing your Faith

    by Allen C. Paul ...
    This companion workbook to God and Gigs: Succeed as a Musician without Sacrificing your Faith provides in-depth questions, reflective exercises and action steps that will help you strenghten your faith, improve your career and enhance your most treasured relationships.By using this workbook and the God and Gigs 7 Service Steps, you can create real and lasting improvements in your music career and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Glory Road

    A Gospel Gypsy Life

    Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road showsAnita Faye Garner grew up in the South—just about every corner of it. She and her musical family lived in Texarkana, Bossier City, Hot Springs, Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Pascagoula, Bogalusa, Biloxi, Gulfport, New Orleans, and points between, picking up sticks every time her father, a Pentecostal preacher ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Gaithers and Southern Gospel

    Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century

    Series series American Made Music Series
    In The Gaithers and Southern Gospel, Ryan P. Harper examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither's Homecoming video and concert series--a gospel music franchise that, since its beginning in 1991, has outperformed all Christian and much secular popular music on the American music market.The Homecomings represent "southern gospel." Typically that means a musical style popular among white evangelical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Fan Who Knew Too Much

    Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations

    A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” —Rolling Stone), Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann (“Electric”—Harold Brodkey).In The Fan Who Knew Too Much, Heilbut writes about art and obsession, from country blues singers and male ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Christian Book of Mystical Verse

    by A. W. Tozer ...
    The purpose of this book is to bring together in one convenient volume some of the best devotional verse the English language affords, and thus to make available to present day Christians a rich spiritual heritage which the greater number of them for various reasons do not now enjoy.I have not hesitated to apply the term “mystical” to the material I have collected here, though I readily admit that ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spirituals for Brass Quintets

    Spirituals have become part of our culture but their origin and purpose are not widely understood. Some show influence from Middle Eastern music which was part of the local culture in East Africa which was a source of slaves and others from the traditional music of West Africa which was a closer source of slaves. Here are ten of the best-known spirituals, e.g., "Swing Low Sweet Chariot", "Going ... Read more

    $14.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus