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1.
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
by:
Claudrena N. Harold
4.10 avg rating β 21 ratings
2.
Movin' On Up
by:
Mahalia Jackson
3.12 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Through the Fire
by:
Gerald Crabb
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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An Illustrated History of Gospel
by:
Steve Turner
4.29 avg rating β 7 ratings
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SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL: THE STORIES BEHIND A HALF-CENTURY OF THE SONGS OF BILL AND GLORIA GAITHER
by:
Gloria Gaither
4.33 avg rating β 27 ratings
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Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music
by:
Jerry Zolten
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 11 ratings
7.
It's More Than the Music: Life Lessons on Friends, Faith, and What Matters Most
by:
Bill Gaither
4.40 avg rating β 102 ratings
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The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
by:
Michael W. Harris
3.86 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Sandi Patti: The Voice of Gospel
by:
Don Custic
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times
by:
Anthony Heilbut
4.05 avg rating β 42 ratings
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The Voice: Listening for Godβs Voice and Finding Your Own
by:
Sandi Patty
4.37 avg rating β 320 ratings
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We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (The "Wade in the Water" Series)
by:
Bernice Johnson Reagon
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Broken on the Back Row: A Journey Through Grace and Forgiveness
by:
Sandi Patty
4.15 avg rating β 363 ratings
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People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music
by:
Robert Darden
4.06 avg rating β 32 ratings
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Falling Forward: ...into His Arms of Grace
by:
Sandi Patty
3.95 avg rating β 74 ratings
15.
Mek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (Music of the African Diaspora) (Volume 11)
by:
Timothy Rommen
3.67 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Layers: Uncovering and Celebrating God's Original Idea of You
by:
Sandi Patty
3.85 avg rating β 82 ratings
18.
The Edge of the Divine: Where Possibility Meets God Faithfulness
by:
Sandi Patty
3.68 avg rating β 79 ratings
18.
A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music
by:
Robert Marovich
4.43 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Songs In The Night
by:
Lauren Talley
4.25 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
by:
Guido Van Rijn
3.57 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Shaped Notes: How Ordinary People with Extraordinary Gifts Influenced My Life and Career
by:
Larnelle Harris
4.43 avg rating β 28 ratings
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Old-time Gospel Banjo Solos (31 All Time Gospel Favorites Arranged in Three Finger Style)
by:
Jack Hatfield
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Prodigal Comes Home: My Story of Failure and God's Story of Redemption
by:
Michael English
4.37 avg rating β 290 ratings
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Isn't Her Grace Amazing!: The Women Who Changed Gospel Music
by:
Cheryl Wills
4.43 avg rating β 42 ratings
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How I Made It Out Alive: My Devotional Journey to Freedom Over Fear and Depression
by:
Dr. Veronica Petrucci
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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When the Church Becomes Your Party: Contemporary Gospel Music
by:
Deborah Smith Pollard
3.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
28.
The Song of Annie Moses: A Musical Quest, a Mother's Gift
by:
Robin Donica Wolaver
4.16 avg rating β 57 ratings
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Elvis, Strait, to Jesus: An Iconic Producer's Journey with Legends of Rock 'n' Roll, Country, and Gospel Music
by:
Tony Brown
3.70 avg rating β 20 ratings
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This Is My Story
by:
Candi Staton
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel (Contemporary Ethnography)
by:
Glenn Hinson
3.67 avg rating β 9 ratings
32.
You Don't Cry Out Loud: The Lily Isaacs Story
by:
Lily Isaacs
4.46 avg rating β 355 ratings
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Trouble In Mind: Bob Dylanβs Gospel Years - What Really Happened
by:
Clinton Heylin
3.84 avg rating β 131 ratings
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Anointed to Sing the Gospel: The Levitical Legacy of Thomas A. Dorsey
by:
Kathryn B. Kemp
3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings
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Just Mahalia, Baby
by:
Laurraine Goreau
3.93 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Gospel Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo: Tablature With Standard Notation for Fiddle and Other Instruments
by:
Dan Levenson
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Got to Tell it: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel
by:
Jules Schwerin
3.50 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life (American Made Music Series)
by:
Alan Young
4.44 avg rating β 9 ratings
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Trusting God to Get You Through: How to Trust God through the FireβLessons I've Learned about Grace, Loss, and Love
by:
Jason Crabb
4.62 avg rating β 34 ratings
39.
The Gospel Side of Elvis
by:
Joe Moscheo
4.17 avg rating β 123 ratings
41.
The Good Road: Encounters Along the Way
by:
Janet Paschal
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
41.
Cotton Patch Gospel : Musical
by:
Tom Key
3.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
43.
Stronger
by:
Kathy Crabb Hannah
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition (Music in American Life
by:
Robert L. Stone
3.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
45.
She Persisted
by:
Kathy Crabb Hannah
3.90 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community
by:
Robert L. Stone
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Runaway Horse
by:
Greg Nelson
4.60 avg rating β 10 ratings
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The Makers of the Sacred Harp (Music in American Life) (Volume 31)
by:
David Warren Steel
3.70 avg rating β 20 ratings
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No Turning Back, Regardless: How God Rescued Me, Redeemed Me, and Restored My Heart with a Song
by:
Lisa Daggs
4.22 avg rating β 9 ratings
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Happy in the Service of the Lord: African-American Sacred Vocal Harmony
by:
Kip Lornell
3.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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WHJD What Has Jesus Done: Inspiring Every Believer to Make a Great Commotion of the Great Commission
by:
Babbie Mason
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
51.
Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Robert Darden
4.36 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Born for This: My Story in Music
by:
BeBe Winans
3.87 avg rating β 45 ratings
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Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism
by:
Kiri Miller
4.11 avg rating β 18 ratings
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Judge Jackson and the Colored Sacred Harp
by:
Joe Dan Boyd
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Story of the Sacred Harp, 1844-1944
by:
George Pullen Jackson
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings
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The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
Buell E. Cobb Jr.
3.90 avg rating β 31 ratings
58.
Mahalia Jackson
by:
Charles K. Wolfe
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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VIP: Mahalia Jackson: Freedom's Voice
by:
Denise Lewis Patrick
4.04 avg rating β 23 ratings
60.
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
by:
Andrea Davis Pinkney
4.20 avg rating β 503 ratings
61.
I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway
by:
Greg Kot
3.88 avg rating β 580 ratings
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We Who Believe in Freedom
by:
Bernice Johnson Reagon
4.46 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Singing in the African American Tradition - Volume 2: Building a Vocal Community
by:
Ysaye M. Barnwell
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
64.
No Mirrors in My Nana's House: Musical CD and Book
by:
Ysaye M. Barnwell
4.17 avg rating β 383 ratings
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
by:
David Ritz
3.85 avg rating β 1,093 ratings
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Aretha: From These Roots
by:
Aretha Franklin
3.15 avg rating β 218 ratings
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You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke
by:
Daniel J. Wolff
4.07 avg rating β 139 ratings
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Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
by:
Peter Guralnick
4.08 avg rating β 1,054 ratings
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Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green
by:
Jimmy McDonough
3.60 avg rating β 107 ratings
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Street Singers, Soul Shakers, Rebels with a Cause: Music from Macon
by:
Candice Dyer
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
71.
My Soul Is a Witness: The Message of the Spirituals in Word And Song
by:
Marsha Hansen
4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings
72.
The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorised Biography
by:
Charles White
4.03 avg rating β 572 ratings
73.
The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash
by:
Dave Urbanski
4.03 avg rating β 234 ratings
74.
Cash
by:
Johnny Cash
4.02 avg rating β 24,977 ratings
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Heavenly Highway Hymns
by:
Stamps/Baxter
4.70 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Somebody's Calling My Name
by:
Wyatt Tee Walker
3.91 avg rating β 11 ratings