Gospel music

Genre of music emphasizing Christian lyrics

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Gospel music

The Dartmouth Gospel Choir

Stylistic origins|

* Christian hymns
* spirituals

Cultural origins| Early 17th century, Scotland
Derivative forms|

* Country
* rhythm and blues
* soul
* rock and roll

Subgenres
Black gospel
Fusion genres

* Christian country music
* trap gospel

Regional scenes
Southern gospel

Gospel music is a traditional genre of Christian music and a cornerstone of Christian media. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of gospel music varies according to culture and social context. Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, and as an entertainment product for the marketplace. Gospel music is characterized by dominant vocals and strong use of harmony with Christian lyrics. Gospel music can be traced to the early 17th century.[1]

Hymns and sacred songs were often performed in a call and response fashion, heavily influenced by ancestral African music. Most of the churches relied on hand–clapping and foot–stomping as rhythmic accompaniment. Most of the singing was done a cappella.[2] The first published use of the term "gospel song" appeared in 1874.

The original gospel songs were written and composed by authors such as George F. Root, Philip Bliss, Charles H. Gabriel, William Howard Doane, and Fanny Crosby.[3] Gospel music publishing houses emerged. The advent of radio in the 1920s greatly increased the audience for gospel music. Following World War II, gospel music moved into major auditoriums, and gospel music concerts became quite elaborate.[4]

Black and Southern gospel music are largely responsible for gospel's continued presence in contemporary Christian music, with soul music by far the best–known popular music variant.[5] The styles emerged from the African-American music and American folk music traditions and have evolved in various ways over the years, continuing to form the basis of Black church worship even today. It has also come to be used in churches of various other cultural traditions (especially within Pentecostalism) and, via the gospel choir phenomenon spearheaded by Thomas Dorsey, has become a form of musical devotion worldwide.[6] Southern Afroamerican gospel groups used all–male, tenor–lead–baritone–bass quartets. Sensational Nightingales, the Soul Stirrers, Swan Silvertones and the Dixie Hummingbirds were famous gospel groups.[7] Christian country music, sometimes referred to as country gospel music, is a subgenre of gospel music with a country flair. Famous Christian country music performers were Grandpa Jones, Webb Pierce, Porter Wagoner and the Oak Ridge Boys.[8] British black gospel refers to Gospel music of the African diaspora produced in the United Kingdom.

## History

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According to Yale University music professor Willie Ruff, the singing of psalms in Scottish Gaelic by Presbyterians of the Scottish Hebrides evolved from "lining out"—where one person sang a solo and others followed—into the call and response of gospel music of the American South.[9] Another theory notes foundations in the works of Isaac Watts and others.[10][unreliable source?]

Moreover, the genre arose during a time when literacy was not a guarantee, utilizing a great deal of repetition (which, unlike more traditional hymns, allowed those who could not read the opportunity to participate).[citation needed]

### 18th century

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Perhaps the most famous gospel–based hymns were composed in the 1760s and 1770s by English writers John Newton ("Amazing Grace") and Augustus Toplady ("Rock of Ages"), members of the Anglican Church. Starting out as lyrics only, it took decades for standardized tunes to be added to them. Although not directly connected with African–American gospel music, they were adopted by African–Americans as well as white Americans, and Newton's connection with the abolition movement provided cross–fertilization.

### Holiness-Pentecostal era (19th century)

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Philip Paul Bliss

The first published use of the term "Gospel song" probably appeared in 1874 when Philip Bliss released a songbook entitled Gospel Songs. A Choice Collection of Hymns and Tunes. It was used to describe a new style of church music, songs that were easy to grasp and more easily singable than the traditional church hymns, which came out of the mass revival movement starting with Dwight L. Moody, whose musician was Ira D. Sankey, as well as the Holiness–Pentecostal movement.[3] Prior to the meeting of Moody and Sankey in 1870, there was an American rural/frontier history of revival and camp meeting songs, but the gospel hymn was of a different character, and it served the needs of mass revivals in the great cities.[11]

The revival movement employed popular singers and song leaders, the most famous of them being Ira D. Sankey. The original "gospel" songs were written and composed by authors such as George F. Root, Philip Bliss, Charles H. Gabriel, William Howard Doane, and Fanny Crosby.[3] As an extension to his initial publication Gospel Songs, Philip Bliss, in collaboration with Ira D. Sankey issued no's. 1 to 6 of Gospel Hymns in 1875.[12] Sankey and Bliss's collection can be found in many libraries today.

The popularity of revival singers and the openness of rural churches to this type of music (in spite of its initial use in city revivals) led to the late 19th and early 20th century establishment of gospel music publishing houses such as those of Homer Rodeheaver, E. O. Excell, Charlie Tillman, and Charles Tindley. These publishers were in the market for large quantities of new music, providing an outlet for the creative work of many songwriters and composers.[13]

The advent of radio in the 1920s greatly increased the audience for gospel music, and James D. Vaughan used radio as an integral part of his business model, which also included traveling quartets to publicize the gospel music books he published several times a year.[14] Virgil O. Stamps and Jesse R. Baxter studied Vaughan's business model and by the late 1920s were running heavy competition for Vaughan.[15] The 1920s also saw the marketing of gospel records by groups such as the Carter Family.

### Emergence of Black gospel (1920s–1970s)

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Main article: Black Gospel music

Mahalia Jackson has been called the "Queen of Gospel"

The Pentecostal movement quickly made inroads with churches not attuned to the Europeanized Black church music that had become popular over the years since Emancipation. These congregations readily adopted and contributed to the gospel music publications of the early 20th century. Sister Rosetta Tharpe, pioneer of rock and roll, soon emerged from this tradition as the first great gospel recording artist.[16] The first person to introduce ragtime to gospel (and the first to play piano on a gospel recording) was Arizona Dranes.[17]

The 1930s saw the rise of Black gospel quartets such as the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama.[18] In addition to these high–profile quartets, there were many Black gospel musicians performing in the 1920s and 30s, usually playing the guitar and singing in the streets of Southern cities.

In the 1930s, in Chicago, Thomas A. Dorsey turned to gospel music, establishing a publishing house.[4] It has been said that 1930 was the year traditional black gospel music began, as the National Baptist Convention first publicly endorsed the music at its 1930 meeting.[19] Dorsey was responsible for developing the musical careers of many African–American artists, such as Mahalia Jackson (best known for her rendition of his "Precious Lord, Take My Hand").[4]

Meanwhile, radio continued to develop an audience for gospel music, a fact that was commemorated in Albert E. Brumley's 1937 song, "Turn Your Radio On" (which is still being published in gospel song books). (In 1972, a recording of "Turn Your Radio On" by the Lewis Family was nominated for Gospel Song of the Year.)[20] The Soul Stirrers introduced R.H. Harris, Sam Cooke, and Johnnie Taylor. Sensational Nightingales, Swan Silvertones, the Soul Stirrers, The Blind Boys of Alabama,[21] Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and the Dixie Hummingbirds were popular in afroamerican gospel fans.[22]

In 1964, the Gospel Music Association was established, which in turn began the Dove Awards (in 1969) and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame (in 1972). Both of the latter two groups began primarily for Southern gospel performers, but in the late 1970s, began including artists of other subgenres, which brought in many Black artists.[23] Deep gospel Artists such as James Cleveland and Aretha Franklin performanced traditional gospel style.[24] In 1969, James Cleveland established the Gospel Music Workshop of America, a Black gospel outlet.

Late 20th–century musicians such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Blackwood Brothers were also known for their gospel influences and recordings.[15]

### Contemporary Black gospel and gospel rap (1970s–present)

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Main article: Urban contemporary gospel

Urban contemporary gospel emerged in the late 1960s and early 70s with the Edwin Hawkins Singers highly popular gospel song "Oh Happy Day" (1969) which is still performed worldwide in the 2000s. Pop gospel musician Andraé Crouch and the Clark Sisters followed them. And this pattern would repeat itself in subsequent decades, with new artists like Yolanda Adams and Kirk Franklin making increasingly more bold forays into the secular world with their musical stylings. The current sphere of Black gospel recording artists is almost exclusively of the urban contemporary bent.

Also of note is the rise of Christian (or gospel) rap/hip–hop, which has gained increasing popularity since the days of the Gospel Gangstaz and The Cross Movement. Often considered a subgenre of urban contemporary gospel, Christian rap has become dominated in present times by artists from Reach Records, who have seen perhaps the most commercial success of any artists in the gospel genre; Lecrae (the label's founder and preeminent artist) has charted in the top 10 of on the Billboard 200 three times, with his 2014 album "Anomaly" debuting at No. 1.

## Subgenres

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This article is a part in a series on

Gospel music

Roots and beginnings

Christian Hymns
Negro Spirituals
Sacred Harp
Shape note

Genres and subgenres

Southern Gospel

Gospel blues
Bluegrass gospel
Christian country music
Country Gospel
Progressive Southern Gospel
Urban contemporary gospel

Christian hip hop

Related music genres

CCM
Soul

Southern soul

Associations and groups

Gospel Music Hall of Fame
Gospel Music Workshop of America
National Gospel Singing Convention
National Quartet Convention
Australian Gospel Music Association
GMA Canada

Awards

GMA Dove Awards
Stellar Awards
Covenant Awards

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* Musicians

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* Christianity: Portal
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### Black gospel

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#### Traditional

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Main article: Traditional black gospel

Traditional Black gospel music is the most well–known form, often seen in Black churches, non–Black Pentecostal and evangelical churches, and in entertainment spaces across the country and world. It originates from the Southeastern United States ("the South"), where most Black Americans lived prior to the Great Migration. This music was highly influenced by the hymnody of the spirituals and of Watts and, later, the musical style and vision of Dorsey. Whereas northern Black churches did not at first welcome Dorsey's music (having become accustomed to their own more Eurocentric flavorings), after the Southern migrants' new churches became more popular, so did gospel music, gospel choirs, and the general trend toward exclusive use of this music in Black churches. Dorsey, Whitney Houston, Mahalia Jackson, the Mississippi Mass Choir, and the Georgia Mass Choir are but a few notable examples.

#### Urban contemporary

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Main article: Urban contemporary gospel

Developing out of the fusion of traditional Black gospel with the styles of secular Black music popular in the 70s and 80s, Urban Contemporary gospel is the most common form of recorded gospel music today. It relies heavily on rhythms and instrumentation common in the secular music of the contemporary era (often including the use of electronic beats), while still incorporating the themes and heritage of the traditional Black gospel genre. Kirk Franklin is the foremost (and by far the bestselling) individual in this genre, while Andrae Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Mary Mary, and Yolanda Adams are also very popular and noteworthy.[citation needed][25]

#### British

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British black gospel refers to gospel music of the African diaspora in the UK. It is also often referred to as "UK gospel".[26] The distinctive sound is heavily influenced by UK street culture with many artists from the African and Caribbean majority black churches in the UK.[27] The genre has gained recognition in various awards such as the GEM (Gospel Entertainment Music) Awards,[28] MOBO Awards,[29][30] Urban Music Awards[31] and has its own Official Christian & Gospel Albums Chart.[32]

### Southern gospel music

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Main article: Southern gospel

Southern gospel music comes from the Southeastern United States and is similar in sound to Christian country music, but it sometimes known as "quartet music" for its traditional "four men and a piano" set up. The genre, while remaining predominantly White, began to integrate Black gospel stylings in the 1960s.[33] It has evolved over the years into a popular form of music across the United States and overseas, especially among baby boomers and those living in the South. Like other forms of music the creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of southern gospel varies according to culture and social context.

### Christian country music

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Main article: Christian country music

Christian country music, sometimes referred to as country gospel music, is a subgenre of gospel music with a country flair, is also known as inspirational country. Webb Pierce, the Oak Ridge Boys and Granpa Jones recorded Christian country music records. Christian country over the years has progressed into a mainstream country sound with inspirational or positive country lyrics. In the mid–1990s, Christian country hit its highest popularity. This popularity was such that mainstream artists like Larry Gatlin, Charlie Daniels and Barbara Mandrell, just to name a few, began recording music that had this positive Christian country flair. These mainstream artists have now become award winners in this genre.[34][35]

## Comparison to other hymnody

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Some proponents of "standard" hymns generally dislike gospel music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, believing that it emphasizes emotion over doctrine. For example, Patrick and Sydnor complain that commercial success led to a proliferation of such music, and "deterioration, even in a standard which to begin with was not high, resulted."[36] They went on to say, "there is no doubt that a deterioration in taste follows the use of this type of hymn and tune; it fosters an attachment to the trivial and sensational which dulls and often destroys sense of the dignity and beauty which best befit the song that is used in the service of God."[37]

Gold reviewed the issue in 1958, and collected a number of quotations similar to the complaints of Patrick and Sydnor. However, he also provided this quotation: "Gospel hymnody has the distinction of being America's most typical contribution to Christian song. As such, it is valid in its inspiration and in its employment."[38][39]

Today, with historical distance, there is a greater acceptance of such gospel songs into official denominational hymnals. For example, the United Methodist Church made this acceptance explicit in The Faith We Sing, a 2000 supplement to the official denominational hymnal. In the preface, the editors say, "Experience has shown that some older treasures were missed when the current hymnals were compiled."[40]

## See also

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* Gospel Music Hall of Fame
* List of gospel musicians
* Phillip Paul Bliss House
* Soul music
* Stellar Awards

## References

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1. ^ "Gospel History Timeline". University of Southern California. Archived from the original on September 21, 2010. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
2. ^ Jackson, Joyce Marie. "The changing nature of gospel music: A southern case study." African American Review 29.2 (1995): 185. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. October 5, 2010.
3. ^ a b c Malone (1984), p. 520
4. ^ a b c Malone (1984), p. 523
5. ^ McGuinness, Paul (August 26, 2022). "A Change Is Gonna Come: How Gospel Gave Birth To Soul". uDiscover Music. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
6. ^ Burnim, Mellonee (1980). "Gospel Music Research". Black Music Research Journal. 1: 63–70\. doi:10.2307/779294. ISSN 0276-3605. JSTOR 779294.63-70&rft.date=1980&rft.issn=0276-3605&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/779294#id-name=JSTOR&rft_id=info:doi/10.2307/779294&rft.aulast=Burnim&rft.aufirst=Mellonee&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/779294&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Gospel+music" class="Z3988">
7. ^ Gospel allmusic Retrieved 20 November 2024
8. ^ the Oak Ridge Boys countrymusichalloffame.org Retrieved 30 November 2024
9. ^ "From Charles Mackintosh's waterproof to Dolly the sheep: 43 innovations Scotland has given the world". The Independent. January 3, 2016.
10. ^ "Isaac Watts – The Center For Church Music, Songs and Hymns". Songsandhymns.org.
11. ^ Christ-Janer, Hughes & Smith (1980), p. 364
12. ^ Benson, Louis F. The English Hymn: Its Development and Use in Worship. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1915, p. 486. Several sources cite the Bliss and Sankey 1875 publication as the first to use the word "gospel" in this sense. For example, Malone (1984), p. 520.
13. ^ Hall, Jacob Henry. Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1914, provides contemporary information about songwriters, composers and publishers.
14. ^ See also Charles Davis Tillman.
15. ^ a b Malone (1984), p. 521
16. ^ "Godmother of Rock and Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe". PBS. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
17. ^ "COGIC Women in Gospel Music on Patheos". Patheos.com. June 10, 2009. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
18. ^ Malone (1984), p. 522
19. ^ Southern (1997), p. 484
20. ^ "The Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards Nominations for the Gospel Song of 1972", Canaan Records (Waco, Texas) CAS-9732-LP Stereo.
21. ^ After 75 years of touring, the Blind Boys of Alabama are still reaping blessings The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 November 2024
22. ^ "RIP Barney Parks of Dixie Hummingbirds and Sensational Nightingales". Journal of Gospel Music. March 4, 2007. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
23. ^ Malone (1984), p. 524
24. ^ Join chorus selection gospel berklee.edu Retrieved 20 December 2024
25. ^ Farrant, Dan (October 11, 2023). "28 Of The Greatest And Most Famous Gospel Singers Of All Time". Hello Music Theory. Archived from the original on September 19, 2023.
26. ^ "Gospel music". BBC. July 11, 2011. Archived from the original on August 30, 2012.
27. ^ Smith, Steve Alexander (2009). British Black Gospel: Foundations of this vibrant UK sound. Monarch Books. ISBN 9781854248961.
28. ^ Mackay, Maria (November 4, 2005). "Freddie Kofi Wins Best Male at GEM Awards". Christian Today.
29. ^ N.A. (October 20, 2010). "Mobo Awards 2010: The Winners". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on January 11, 2022.
30. ^ "Gospel's Lurine Cato is triumphant at the MOBOs". The Voice Online. October 21, 2013.
31. ^ "Urban Music Awards". Urbanmusicawards.net.
32. ^ "UKs first Official Christian & Gospel Albums Chart to launch next week". Recordoftheday.com. March 14, 2013.
33. ^ Goff, James R. (1998). "The Rise of Southern Gospel Music". Church History. 67 (4): 722–744\. doi:10.2307/3169850. ISSN 0009-6407. JSTOR 3169850. S2CID 162017997.722-744&rft.date=1998&rft.issn=0009-6407&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:162017997#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3169850#id-name=JSTOR&rft_id=info:doi/10.2307/3169850&rft.aulast=Goff&rft.aufirst=James+R.&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3169850&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Gospel+music" class="Z3988">
34. ^ "Larry Gatlin nominated for Christian Country Album of the Year". Tollbooth.org. Archived from the original on November 4, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2008.
35. ^ "Barbara Mandrell inducted into the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on February 25, 2015.
36. ^ Patrick (1962), p. 171
37. ^ Patrick (1962), p. 172
38. ^ Stevenson, Robert. Religion in Life, Winter, 1950–51[page needed]
39. ^ Gold, Charles E. "The Gospel Song: Contemporary Opinion", The Hymn. v. 9, no. 3 (July 1958), p. 70.
40. ^ Hickman, Hoyt L., ed. "Introduction", The Faith We Sing (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press, 2000).[page needed]

### Bibliography

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* Christ-Janer, Albert; Hughes, Charles W.; Smith, Carleton Sprague (1980). American Hymns Old and New. New York: Columbia University Press.
* Malone, Bill C. (1984). "Music, Religious, of the Protestant South". In Samuel S. Hill (ed.). Encyclopedia of Religion in the South. Mercer University Press.
* Patrick, Millar (1962). The Story of the Church's Song. Revised by James Rawlings Sydnor. Richmond, Virginia: John Knox Press.
* Southern, Eileen (1997). The Music of Black Americans: a History (3rd ed.). New York: W. W. Norton.

## Further reading

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Selection of gospel music collected by the Library of Congress in 1943

Oh Jonah!

Sung by the Golden Jubilee Quartet

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My Lord Is Writin'

Sung by the Cochran Field Singers

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Death is an Awful Thing

Sung by the Middle Georgia Singers

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We are Americans, Praise the Lord

Sung by Bertha Houston and her congregation (with a few topical verses on World War II)

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Death Come a-Knockin'

Sung by The Four Brothers

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John the Revelator

Sung by the Spiritual Four Quartet: Edward Bond, Cleve Parker, James Bond, and Elwood Gaines

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* Allen, Ray. Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City, in series, Publication[s] of the American Folklore Society: New Series. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. xx,[2], 268 p., ill. with b&w photos. ISBN 0-8122-1331-9 pbk.
* Barlow, Sanna Morrison. Mountain Singing: the Story of Gospel Recordings in the Philippines. Hong Kong: Alliance Press, 1952. 352 p.
* Blackwell, Lois. The Wings of a Dove: The Story of Gospel Music in America. Norfolk: Donning, 1978.[ISBN missing]
* Boyer, Horace Clarence. How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel. Elliott and Clark, 1995. ISBN 0-252-06877-7.
* Broughton, Viv. Too Close to Heaven: The Illustrated History of Gospel Music. Midnight Books, 1996. ISBN 1-900516-00-4.
* Albert E Brumley & Sons. The Best of Albert E. Brumley. Gospel Songs, 1966, paperback Amazing Grace [ISBN missing]
* Cleall, Charles. Sixty Songs From Sankey. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1960.
* Collins, Irma H. (2013). Dictionary of Music Education. Maryland: Scarecrow Press.
* Cusic, Don. The Sound of Light: a History of Gospel Music. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990. iv, 267 p. ISBN 0879724986 pbk.
* Darden, Robert. People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, ISBN 0-8264-1752-3.
* Downey, James C. The Gospel Hymn 1875–1930. University of Southern Mississippi, MA,[clarification needed] 1963.
* Eskew, Harry. "Gospel Music, I" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), VII, 549–554.
* Hanson, Kenneth, The Hymnody and Hymnals of the Restoration Movement. Butler University, BD,[clarification needed] 1951.
* Heilbut, Tony, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times, Limelight Editions, 1997, ISBN 0-87910-034-6.
* McNeil, W. K., ed. Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music. Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0-415-94179-2.
* Marovich, Robert M., A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0252080692.
* Mungons, Kevin and Douglas Yeo, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0252085833.
* Stevenson, Arthur L. The Story of Southern Hymnology. Roanoke, Virginia: Stone Printing and Manufacturing, 1931.
* Zolten, Jerry. Great God A' Mighty!: The Dixie Hummingbirds – Celebrating The Rise of Soul Gospel Music. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-19-515272-7.

### Archival sources

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* USC Gospel Music History Archive
* Finding aid to Camille Taylor collection of Black Music Caucus Gospel Choir Competition recordings at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
* Guide to the Gospel Sheet Music Collection, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago

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