Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument: The Artistry and Cultural Politics of Reverend James Cleveland
Chapter 2. A Special Kind of Witness: Andraé Crouch, the Growth of Contemporary Christian Music, and the Politics of Race
Chapter 3. Hold My Mule: Shirley Caesar and the Gospel of the New South
Chapter 4. A Wonderful Change: Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive Explosion
Chapter 5. Higher Plane: The Gospel According to Al Green
Chapter 6. The Only Thing Right Left in a Wrong World: The Clark Sisters, the Winans, Commissioned, and the Search for Cultural Authority in the 1980s
Chapter 7. If I Be Lifted: Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Singers
Chapter 8. Through It All: Vanessa Bell Armstrong and the Perils of Crossover
Chapter 9. Hold Up the Light: The Crossover Success of BeBe and CeCe Winans
Chapter 10. Outside the County Line: The Southern Soul of John P. Kee
Chapter 11. We Are the Drum: Take 6, the Sounds of Blackness, and the New Black Aesthetic
Epilogue: Do You Want a Revolution? Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and the Beginning of a New Era in Gospel Music
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1. Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument: The Artistry and Cultural Politics of Reverend James Cleveland
Chapter 2. A Special Kind of Witness: Andraé Crouch, the Growth of Contemporary Christian Music, and the Politics of Race
Chapter 3. Hold My Mule: Shirley Caesar and the Gospel of the New South
Chapter 4. A Wonderful Change: Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive Explosion
Chapter 5. Higher Plane: The Gospel According to Al Green
Chapter 6. The Only Thing Right Left in a Wrong World: The Clark Sisters, the Winans, Commissioned, and the Search for Cultural Authority in the 1980s
Chapter 7. If I Be Lifted: Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Singers
Chapter 8. Through It All: Vanessa Bell Armstrong and the Perils of Crossover
Chapter 9. Hold Up the Light: The Crossover Success of BeBe and CeCe Winans
Chapter 10. Outside the County Line: The Southern Soul of John P. Kee
Chapter 11. We Are the Drum: Take 6, the Sounds of Blackness, and the New Black Aesthetic
Epilogue: Do You Want a Revolution? Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and the Beginning of a New Era in Gospel Music
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index