This book is a landmark study tracing the currents of music education that gave form and style to the black gospel quartet tradition. To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham African-American Studies Program and Department of Musicinstructor Kevin P. Turner will present a lecture by George W. Stewart on “The Jefferson County Sound: ...

Music lover Jerry Zolten was driving home late one night when his favorite R&B radio station started playing its gospel show. Although he came upon the music accidentally, there was “just something in ...

The success of "Move on Up a Little Higher proved that Gospel could be profitable. Until the 1940s, male quartets dominated gospel recordings. But, in 1947, Apollo Records, a small independent label ...