Black Studies: Blues and Gospel

Waiting for Buddy Guy : Chicago Blues at the Crossroads by Alan Harper Harper's eloquent memoir conjures the smoky redoubts of men like harmonica virtuoso Big Walter Horton and pianist Sunnyland Slim. Venturing from stageside to kitchen tables to the shotgun seat of a 1973 Eldorado, Harper listens to performers and others recollect memories of triumphs earned and chances forever lost, of deep wells of pain and soaring flights of inspiration.

Blues Unlimited : Essential Interviews From the Original Blues Magazine by Bill Greensmith (Editor); Mike Rowe (Editor); Mark Camarigg (Editor); Tony Russell (Foreword by)

Bessie by Chris Albertson

Ramblin' on My Mind by David Evans

Escaping the delta : Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues by Elijah Wald

The Blues: A Very Short Introduction by Elijah Wald

The History of the Blues by Francis Davis

In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton

Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South by Michelle R. Scott

Deep Blues by Robert Palmer

Nobody knows where the blues come from : lyrics and history by Robert Springer

DeltaBlues : the Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia

Blues music in the sixties : a story in Black and White by Ulrich Adelt

Give My Poor Heart Ease : Voices of the Mississippi Blues by William Ferris

Blues from the Delta by William R. Ferris

Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music by W. K. McNeil (Editor)

Woke me up this morning : Black gospel singers and the gospel life by Alan Young

A City Called Heaven : Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music by Robert M. Marovich

Singing in My Soul : Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age by Jerma A. Jackson

If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me by Bernice Johnson Reagon; Bernice Reagon

Downhome gospel : African American spiritual activism in wiregrass country by Jerrilyn McGregory

The School of Arizona Dranes : Gospel Music Pioneer by Timothy Dodge

African American Heritage Hymnal by Delores Carpenter (Editor); Nolan E. Williams (Editor)

The Rise of Gospel Blues : The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church by Michael W. Harris

Nothing but Love in God’s Water : Volume 2: Black Sacred Music From Sit-Ins to Resurrection City by Robert Darden

Flaming? the Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance by Alisha Lola Jones Flaming?: The Peculiar Theo-Politics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance examines the rituals and social interactions of African American men who use gospel music making as a means of worshiping God and performing gendered identities. Prompted by the popular term "flaming(g)" that is used to identify over-the-top or peculiar performance of identity, Flaming? argues that these men wield and interweave a variety of multivalent aural-visual cues, including vocal style, gesture, attire, and homiletics, to position themselves along a spectrum of gender identities.