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 ...

Ernie Haase & Signature Sound, a group that combines 21st-century ideas with the timeless quality of great gospel quartets of the 1950s, will sing at 7 p.m. Friday in UND's Chester Fritz Auditorium.

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, ...