The sound of light : a history of gospel music
Don Cusic presents gospel music as part of the history of contemporary Christianity. From the psalms of the early Puritans through the hymns of Isaac Watts and the social activism of the Wesleys, gospel music was established in eighteenth-century America. With the camp meetings songs of the Kentucky Revival and the spirituals and hymns that stemmed from the Civil War and beyond, gospel music grew through the nineteenth century and expanded through new technologies in the twentieth century
Print Book, English, ©1990
Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio, ©1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
iv, 267 pages ; 24 cm
9780879724979, 9780879724986, 0879724978, 0879724986
22976187
Music in the Bible
Early music in the church
The sixteenth century: Roots of contemporary Christianity
A mighty fortress: Martin Luther as songwriter
First seeds: Gospel music in America
Isaac Watts
The Wesleys
The secular influence
Give me that old time religion
The great revival
Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver
The rise of radio and records
Black gospel
Southern gospel
The Speers and the Blackwoods
Spirit in the sky: Gospel music on pop radio
Elvis and gospel
Mahalia Jackson and Same Cooke
The Jesus revolution
The Catholics in America
The major labels: Word and Benson
Bill Gaither
Fanny Lou Hamer and James Cleveland
Cathedrals, Florida Boys and Kingsmen
Sparrow Records and Keith Green
Music in the church: George Beverly Shea and Sandi Patti
Jimmy Swaggart
Country and gospel: Johnny Cash and Barbara Mandrell
Amy Grant
The rock that doesn't roll: Imperials, Petra and Michael W. Smith
The music missionaries
The Christian culture
Rewards and awards: Marketing the movement
Conclusion