Gospel music - books

Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison. 
Slave Songs of the United States. NY: Peter Smith, 1929. (orig., 1867)

Allen, Ray. Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in 
New York City. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press,  1991.

Bishop, Selma L. Isaac Watts' Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707): A 
Publishing History and a Bibliography. Ann Arbor, MI: The Pierian Press, 
1974.

Broughton, Viv. Black Gospel: An Illustrated History of the Gospel Sound.
Poole, Dorset, UK: Blandford Press, 1985.

Cobb, Buell E., Jr. The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music. Athens, GA:
1978.

Crawford, Richard. Andrew Law, American Psalmodist. Evanston, 
IL: 1968.

Davenport, Linda Gilbert. Divine Song on the Northeast Frontier: Maine's 
Sacred Tunebooks, 1800-1830. Composers of North America, nr. 18. 
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1996. 440 pgs.

Gould, Nathaniel D. Church Music in America, Comprising its History 
and Its Peculiarities at Different Periods, with Cursory Remarks on 
Its Legitimate Use and Its Abuse; with Notices of the Schools, 
Composers, Teachers and Societies. Boston: 1853; reprint, NY: 1972.

Harris, Michael W. The Rise of Gospel Blues - The Music of Thomas Andrew
Dorsey in the Urban Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Lorenz, Ellen Jane. Glory, Hallelujah: The Story of the Camp Meeting
Spiritual.  Nashville: Abington, 1980.

Maultsby, Poetia K. Afro-American Religious Music: A Study in Musical
Diversity. (Papers of the Hymn Society of America, 35.) Springfield, OH:
The Hymn Society of America, 1981.

Peters, Erskine, ed. Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual - A Documentary
Collection. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Phillips, C. S. Hymnody Past and Present. London & NY: Macmillan Co., 1937.

Pitts, Walter F. Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African 
Diaspora. NY & London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.

Stevenson, Robert. Protestant Church Music in America. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1966.

Sutton, Joel Brett. The Gospel Hymn, Shaped Notes, and the Black Tradition. 
Continuity and Change in American Traditional Music. Chapel Hill, NC: MA 
Thesis in Folklore, 1976.

Titon, Jeff Todd. Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant and Song in an 
Appalachian Baptist Church. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1988.
Marvelous sociological study of community, history and church.

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