Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Down Home guide to the blues The Down Home guide to the blues Frank Scott Summary, Adiscographical guide to more than 3,000 blues and gospel LPs, CDs, and cassettes with information on the featured artists, and the quality and availability of the recordings. OL13501574W
The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music Allan Moore From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the mythology of twentieth-century culture. The styles in which they sang have p… OL15185655W
Louisiana music Louisiana music Rick Koster "A journey from R&B to zydeco, jazz to country, blues to gospel, Cajun music to swamp pop to Carnival music and beyond." OL15951062W
To do this, you must know how To do this, you must know how Lynn Abbott This book is a landmark study tracing the currents of music education that gave form and style to the black gospel quartet tradition. To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instructio… OL16637158W
The King of Glory The King of Glory Charles Reign Scoville,D. B. Towner Includes congregational hymns; social service songs; missionary hymns; children's songs; solos, duets and quartets; male voice selections; chorus choir selections; invitation hymns; devotional hymns;… OL16836208W
The Broadman hymnal The Broadman hymnal B. B. McKinney With something akin to a proper appreciation of the value of music in group and public worship, we have genuine happiness in presenting The Broadman Hymnal. If music is the universal language, and it… OL17037148W
A city called heaven A city called heaven Robert M. Marovich In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago. Maro… OL20005519W
Diamond (The Divas) Diamond (The Divas) Victoria Christopher Murray Diamond Winters is the one who formed the Divas. With her wealthy, loving parents and an endless supply of charm, she’s always been able to sweet-talk her way into anything. But this time, has Diamon… OL2189387W
Veronique Veronique Victoria Christopher Murray Fifteen-year-old Veronique's unhappiness at home increases her desire to find her father in New York, but when she goes there with her best friends, The Divas, and secretly meets someone who has been… OL2189394W
Blues & gospel records, 1902-1943 Blues & gospel records, 1902-1943 Robert M. W. Dixon The Best You Can Get !!! ALL information about Blues & Gospel recordings 1902 - 1943 OL2426434W
Contemporary Christian Contemporary Christian Hal Leonard Corp. Staff 1 score (352 pages) ; 28 cm OL26528960W
Christmas in Georgia Christmas in Georgia Celestine Sibley In this collection of five stories, children from different parts of Georgia discover the joys of Christmas. OL2666798W
Spirituals Spirituals Kathleen A. Abromeit Spirituals originated among enslaved Africans in America during the colonial era. They resonate throughout African American history from that time to the civil rights movement, from the cotton fields… OL28174781W
Tambourines to glory Tambourines to glory Langston Hughes Finally available in trade paperback, Langston Hughes's breezy parable of good and evil, friendship and betrayal, is an unforgettable portrait of 1950s Harlem and two women called to the pulpit for v… OL28557W
Easy Gospel Easy Gospel VARIOUS 1 score (56 p.) ; 25 cm OL31637233W
Gospel legends Gospel legends Chet Hagan 179 p. : 18 cm OL3546885W
Fanny Crosby Fanny Crosby Rebecca Henry Davis This book is a biography of the famous nineteenth-century hymnwriter of more then 9000 hymns. Permanently blinded after treatment for an eye infection, Fanny Crosby continues to serve the Lord with a… OL4538899W
Singing the Gospel Singing the Gospel Christopher Boyd Brown Singing the Gospel offers a new appraisal of the Reformation and its popular appeal, based on the place of German hymns in the sixteenth-century press and in the lives of early Lutherans. The Bohemia… OL5736517W