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)[...]
A survey of gospel singing, with attention to the relationship between gospel and other black musical forms such as jazz and rhythm and blues.[...]