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Black Music: Spirituals and Gospel

Spirituals and Gospel

Recommended search terms for finding books and other resources in InfoHawk+

Gospel music ; Spirituals (Songs) (this will result in many music scores and a fair number of books, use the left-side filters to select the desired material type) ; African-American musicians

Books

Databases

Online Resources

The Spirituals Database

A project by Randye Jones, a library and voice professional at Grinnell College, this database contains entries for recordings of concert spirituals by solo vocalists. It's a good way to see a lot of information about different, well-known spirituals along with links to recordings where they can be heard in performance. The site also has information on album covers, poetry & art, and the history of spirituals.

Royce-Darden Collection 

This collection was created to identify, acquire, preserve, record and catalog the most at-risk music from the black gospel music tradition. It primarily contains 78s, 45s, LPs, and the various tape formats issued in the United States and abroad between the 1940s and the 1980s. Hosted by Baylor University.