03903nam 2200517 450 991079661160332120230405125046.00-271-08012-40-271-08014-010.1515/9780271080147(CKB)4100000001710604(MiAaPQ)EBC6224779(DE-B1597)583974(OCoLC)1269268739(DE-B1597)9780271080147(EXLCZ)99410000000171060420201001h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNothing but love in God's waterVolume 2Black sacred music from the sit-ins to resurrection city /Robert DardenUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :Pennsylvania State University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (334 pages) illustrationsIncludes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Special Thanks -- Introduction: What Came Before -- 1 The Sit- Ins -- 2 The Freedom Rides -- 3 Albany, Georgia -- 4 Birmingham, Alabama -- 5 The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -- 6 Mississippi Freedom Summer -- 7 Selma, Alabama -- 8 Chicago, Illinois -- 9 Memphis, Tennessee -- Epilogue -- Afterword: What Comes Now -- Notes -- IndexVolume 1 of Nothing but Love in God's Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and on through the Montgomery bus boycott. This second volume continues the journey, chronicling the role this music played in energizing and sustaining those most heavily involved in the civil rights movement.Robert Darden, former gospel music editor for Billboard magazine and the founder of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project at Baylor University, brings this vivid, vital story to life. He explains why black sacred music helped foster community within the civil rights movement and attract new adherents; shows how Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders used music to underscore and support their message; and reveals how the songs themselves traveled and changed as the fight for freedom for African Americans continued. Darden makes an unassailable case for the importance of black sacred music not only to the civil rights era but also to present-day struggles in and beyond the United States.Taking us from the Deep South to Chicago and on to the nation's capital, Darden's grittily detailed, lively telling is peppered throughout with the words of those who were there, famous and forgotten alike: activists such as Rep. John Lewis, the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and Willie Bolden, as well as musical virtuosos such as Harry Belafonte, Duke Ellington, and The Mighty Wonders. Expertly assembled from published and unpublished writing, oral histories, and rare recordings, this is the history of the soundtrack that fueled the long march toward freedom and equality for the black community in the United States and that continues to inspire and uplift people all over the world.Gospel musicHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryAfrican AmericansMusicHistory and criticismSpirituals (Songs)History and criticismGospel musicHistory and criticism.African AmericansCivil rightsHistory.African AmericansMusicHistory and criticism.Spirituals (Songs)History and criticism.780.8996073Darden Bob1954-1584371MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796611603321Nothing but love in God's water3868108UNINA