Table of Contents
Preface vii
Part 1
Chapter 1 Music in the Bible 1
Chapter 2 The Sixteenth Century: Roots of Contemporary Christianity 7
Chapter 3 John Calvin and the Institutes 17
Chapter 4 A Mighty Fortress: Martin Luther as Songwriter 23
Chapter 5 First Seeds: Gospel Music in America 33
Chapter 6 Isaac Watts 43
Chapter 7 The Wesleys 53
Chapter 8 The Secular Influence 65
Chapter 9 Give Me That Old Time Religion 77
Chapter 10 Black Gospel and the Fisk Jubilee Singers 91
Chapter 11 The Great Revival 103
Chapter 12 The Pentecostal and Holiness Movements 119
Chapter 13 Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver 125
Part 2
Chapter 14 The Rise of Radio and Records 135
Chapter 15 The Roots of Black Gospel 143
Chapter 16 The Beginnings of Southern Gospel 153
Chapter 17 Black Gospel During the 1930s 163
Chapter 18 Southern Gospel Music During the Depression 171
Part 3
Chapter 19 Gospel in the Mainstream After World War II: George Bevery Shea and Billy Graham 177
Chapter 20 Southern Gospel After World War II 187
Chapter 21 Black Gospel After World War II 205
Chapter 22 The 1950s and Elvis Presley 217
Chapter 23 Black Gospel and Civil Rights: Fanny Lou Hamer 229
Chapter 24 The 1960s: Peace, Love, and Music 237
Chapter 25 Gospel Music in the 1960s 243
Chapter 26 Southern Gospel in the 1960s and 1970s 251
Chapter 27 The Catholics 269
Part 4
Chapter 28 Contemporary Christian Music: The Early Years 279
Chapter 29 Contemporary Christian Music: Part Two 293
Chapter 30 Black Gospel and James Cleveland 301
Chapter 31 Televangelists and Jimmy Swaggart 307
Chapter 32 Contemporary Christian Music & The Reagan Revolution 327
Chapter 33 CCM Comes Age to Age 337
Chapter 34 Contempoary Christian Music & 1984 345
Chapter 35 The Christian Culture in 1985 353
Chapter 36 Marketing the Movement: The Recording Labels 365
Chapter 37 Christian and Gospel Music in the 1990s 377
Conclusion 387
Notes 397
Appendix A Dove Awards 407
Appendix B Gospel Grammy Awards 443
Bibliography 455
Index 476
