In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than a single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly sacrifice, Harrison presents southern gospel as a network of interconnected messages that evangelical Christians use to make individual sense of both Protestant theological doctrines and their own lived experiences. Harrison explores how listeners and consumers of southern gospel integrate its lyrics and music into their own religious experience, building up individual--and potentially subversive--meanings beneath a surface of evangelical consensus. Reassessing the contributions of such figures as Aldine Kieffer, James D. Vaughan, and Bill and Gloria Gaither, Then Sings My Soul traces an alternative history of southern gospel in the twentieth century, one that emphasizes the music's interaction with broader shifts in American life beyond the narrow confines of southern gospel's borders. His discussion includes the "gay-gospel paradox"--the experience of non-heterosexuals in gospel music--as a cipher for fundamentalism's conflict with the postmodern world.

(Fake Book). This new songbook features over 350 southern gospel songs with the melody line and chord symbol (Fake Book format). The simplicity and convenience of this format is perfect for song leaders, quartets and fans of southern gospel music.

Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Close Harmony traces the development of the music known as southern gospel from its antebellum origins to its twentieth-century emergence as a vibrant musical industry driven by the world of radio, television, recordings, and concert promotions. Marked by smooth, tight harmonies and a lyrical focus on the message of Christian salvation, southern gospel--particularly the white gospel quartet tradition--had its roots in nineteenth-century shape-note singing. The spread of white gospel music is intricately connected to the people who based their livelihoods on it, and Close Harmony is filled with the stories of artists and groups such as Frank Stamps, the Chuck Wagon Gang, the Blackwood Brothers, the Rangers, the Swanee River Boys, the Statesmen, and the Oak Ridge Boys. The book also explores changing relations between black and white artists and shows how, following the civil rights movement, white gospel was influenced by black gospel, bluegrass, rock, metal, and, later, rap. With Christian music sales topping the $600 million mark at the close of the twentieth century, Close Harmony explores the history of an important and influential segment of the thriving gospel industry.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This collection includes 54 gospel favorites arranged for piano and 4-part vocal in hymnal style. Features shape notes, and these songs: Bring Me Out of Desert * Broken Rose * Canaanland Is Just in Sight * Empty Vessel * God Bless the U.S.A. * Good Old Boys * He Speaks to Me * I Bowed on My Knees * I'm a Jesus Fan * Jericho * New Grace * Somebody Touched Me * Walking on the Water * more.

Choral collection for the adult choir, arranged in SATB format.

(PVG Mixed Folio). The most current southern gospel songbook on the market, this value-priced, spiral-bound collection from Daywind offers P/V/G arrangements of dozens of today's radio favorites most in print for the first time! Includes: More Than Ever * I Rest My Case at the Cross * The Healer * Day Three * She Cries * Soon We Will See * He Calms Me * The Call * Safe Thus Far * Try Jesus * I Believe * The Key * Mary Knew * Teardrops * and more.

Arranged by Joseph Linn, Bound for the Kingdom is a collection of 50 favorite gospel songs, a sequel to the best-selling book "Moving Up to Gloryland." Flexible 4-part arrangements provide an extensive resource for choirs, ensembles, soloists, congregations, and small groups. Forty-one songs are arranged in 20 thematic medleys, which may be sung as written, with intros, interludes, and medley endings that are provided, or performed individually. Song titles include: I'm Bound for the Kingdom; Peace in the Valley; Champion of Love; The Lighthouse; My God Is Real; This Ol' House; All the Glory Belongs to Jesus; I Know Who Holds Tomorrow; His Hand in Mine. Ring-bound.

The Easy Christmas Songbook for Piano by Lee Davis features beginning to intermediate arrangements for classic Christmas songs. The first arrangement you will learn for each song features interesting and recognizable melodies using mainly the right hand along with basic left hand parts. The second section of this songbook displays each song along with chord progressions, lyrics, and vocal melody lines. This is a great setup for sing-alongs because the lyrics are written in a large font so that multiple singers and musicians can read along.This course also includes access to audio tracks to help you learn and practice. We have included three different recordings of each song. The first version features just the piano playing the melody line. The second version has the piano playing along with other instruments. The last recording features the other instruments with no piano so that you can practice playing the piano part in context.

(Lillenas Publications). Thirty-five all-time favorite gospel songs from award-winning composer Mosie Lister in one souvenir songbook. Includes historic photos, as well as stories behind several of his songs, such as: How Long Has It Been? * 'Til the Storm Passes By * Where No One Stands Alone * At the Crossing * Then I Met the Master * His Hand in Mine * I'm Feeling Fine * His Grace Is Sufficient for Me * and Goodby, World, Goodby. Straight 4-part arrangements.