Author:
Cusic, Don.
Edition Statement:University Press of Mississippi ed.
Imprint:Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Descriptionix, 502 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Previously published: Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, c2002, under title Sound of light.
Note:Music in the Bible -- The sixteenth century: roots of contemporary Christianity -- John Calvin and the institutes -- 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 -- Black gospel and the Fisk Jubilee Singers -- The great revival -- The Pentacostal and Holiness movements -- Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver -- The rise of radio and records -- The roots of black gospel -- The beginnings of Southern Gospel -- Black gospel during the 1930s -- Southern Gospel music during the Depression -- Gospel in the mainstream after World War II: George Bevery Shea and Billy Graham -- Southern Gospel after World War II -- Black gospel after World War II -- The 1950s and Elvis Presley -- Black gospel and Civil Rights: Fanny Lou Hamer -- The 1960s: peace, love, and music -- Gospel music in the 1960s -- Southern Gospel in the 1960s and 1970s -- The Catholics -- Contemporary Christian music: the early years -- Contemporary Christian music: part two -- Black gospel and James Cleveland -- Televangelists and Jimmy Swaggart -- Contemporary Christian music & the Reagan Revolution -- CCM comes age to age -- Contemporary Christian music & 1984 -- The Christian culture in 1985 -- Marketing the movement: the recording labels -- Christian and gospel music in the 1990s.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-475) and index.
