Nothing but Love in God's Water
Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
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Nothing but Love in God's Water
Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
About this book
The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God's Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression. From the spirituals of southern fields and the ringing chords of black gospel to the protest songs that changed the landscape of labor and the cadences sung before dogs and water cannons in Birmingham, sacred song has stood center stage in the African American drama. Myriad interviews, one-of-a-kind sources, and rare or lost recordings are used to examine this enormously persuasive facet of the movement. Nothing but Love in God's Water explains the historical significance of song and helps us understand how music enabled the civil rights movement to challenge the most powerful nation on the planet.
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Table of contents
- COVER Front
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Notes to Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Beginnings of a Singing Movement
- Notes to Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Origins and Settings of the Spirituals
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: The Spiritual as Protest Songs
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Interlude: The Post–Civil War Era Through the Great Migration
- Notes to Interlude
- Chapter 3: Union Songs, Protest Songs, and the Spirituals
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Chapter 4: The Beginnings of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, the Influence of Radio, and the Rise of Gospel Music
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: Montgomery: Black Sacred Song in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- COVER Back