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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1930s and '40s, John Lomax and his son, Alan, bounced along the back roads of America in a Ford weighed down by a 300-pound recording machine. They were searching for the music they believed ...

Why gospel music? -- Gospel's African roots -- The rise of spirituals in North America -- What spirituals are, what spirituals mean -- The American Civil War -- Reconstruction, the jubilee singers, ...

Jefferson County, Alabama, is home to a distinct a cappella gospel style which developed in the African-American community during the regions industrial development in the early 20th century.

In the view of many people, the American South is a complex phenomenon. One aspect of its complexity is that cultures brought there from Africa and Europe interacted with one another despite efforts ...