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Books
For children

  • Deborah Hopkinson, Raul Colon (illus.), A Band of Angels: a story inspired by the Jubilee Singers
  • Vy Higginsen, Brenda Joysmith (illus.), This is My Song : A Collection of Gospel Music for the Family
  • Gwenyth Swain, Ronald Himler (illus.), I Wonder As I Wander
  • Roxane Orgil, Mahalia, A Life in Gospel Music

For adults

  • Robert Darden, People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music
  • Allan Powell, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music
  • Alan Young, The Pilgrim Jubilees
  • J. Jerome Zolten, Great God a'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music
  • Loyal Jones, Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands
  • John Lilly, ed., Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal
  • Horace Clarence Boyer, Lloyd Yearwood (photography), The Golden Age of Gospel
  • Kip Lornell, Happy in the Service of the Lord

Music

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