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Book Review


Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age. By Jerma A. Jackson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv, 193 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2860-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5530-8.)
Jerma A. Jackson's new book, Singing in My Soul, includes an ambitious subtitle: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age. The scope of Jackson's study, however, is much more narrow. The focus of this concise and well-written but relatively slim volume is the female innovators of solo gospel—most notably, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The book is part biography of Tharpe, part African American religious history, and part overview of the major trends in African American gospel music from the turn of the century to the 1950s. . . .
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