Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Spiritual: Beginnings and Context
Chapter 2: The Spirituals: Protest Songs
Interlude: The Protest Spirituals: From the Post Civil War Era Through the Great
Migration
Chapter 3: The Spirituals: “There is Power in the Union!”
Chapter 4: The Beginnings of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, the Influence of
Radio, and the Rise of Gospel Music
Chapter 5: Montgomery: Black Sacred Song in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
“African-American music and its revolutionary potential, whether in the form of slave spirituals or the protest songs of the Civil Rights Movement, is relatively well-trodden ground amongst scholars. Where Robert Darden diverts from, and adds to this historiography, is in highlighting the reach and impact of black musical forms within sections of white American society. . . . Darden presents a compelling study of the impact of African-American music, making excellent use of both the rich historiography, and the various black musical genres.”
—Thomas Strange, Journal of Ecclesiastical History
