| Book Title | Author(s) | World Cat Ref. | ISBN | Published | Our holdings | Librarian's memo |
| Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel | James R. Goff | http://www.worldcat.org/title/close-harmony-a-history-of-southern-gospel/oclc/47785612 | 9780807853467 | 2002 | 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. | |
| They Heard Georgia Singing | Zell Miller | http://www.worldcat.org/title/they-heard-georgia-singing/oclc/34699523 | 9780865545045 | 1996 | ||
| Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music | W.K. McNeil | http://www.worldcat.org/title/encyclopedia-of-american-gospel-music/oclc/61178228 | 9780415941792 | 2005 | ||
| The History of Gospel Music | Rose Blue; Corinne J Naden | http://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-gospel-music/oclc/46640880 | 9780791058190 | 2001 | Tells the stories of notable groups of people of color -- A companion series to the award-winning Black Americans of Achievement biographies Gospel music has been a crucial part of the African-American experience. From the days of slavery to the civil rights movement, the music is seen as a source of salvation by many. | |
| It's More Than The Music: Life lessons on friends, faith, and what matters most | Bill Gaither; Ken Abraham | http://www.worldcat.org/title/its-more-than-the-music-life-lessons-on-friends-faith-and-what-matters-most/oclc/52251074 | 9780446530415 | 2003 | A gospel music composer discusses his childhood, ambition to become a gospel singer, frustrating years as a school teacher, and pursuit of his dream, which led to a Grammy-winning career and a fuller realization of his faith. | |
| Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers | J.H. Hall (Jacob Henry) 1855-1941 | http://www.worldcat.org/title/biography-of-gospel-song-and-hymn-writers/oclc/146974 | 9780404072261 | 1914 | https://archive.org/details/biographyofgospe00hall | Reprinted in 1971 under the ISBN. |
| Mahalia Jackson: The Queen of Gospel Song | Leslie Gourse | http://www.worldcat.org/title/mahalia-jackson-queen-of-gospel-song/oclc/33665736 | 9780531112281 | 1996 | Traces the rise of the famous gospel singer from her early youth in New Orleans to her Chicago-based musical career. | |
| Mahalia Jackson: Born To Sing Gospel Music | Evelyn Witter; Jan M Jones; A G Smith | http://www.worldcat.org/title/mahalia-jackson-born-to-sing-gospel-music/oclc/13004215 | 9780880621366 | 1985 | ||
| Homecoming: The Story of Southern Gospel Music Through The Eyes of Its Best-Loved Performers | Bill Gaither; Jerry B Jenkins | http://www.worldcat.org/title/homecoming-the-story-of-southern-gospel-music-through-the-eyes-of-its-best-loved-performers/oclc/36817050 | 9780310213253 | 1997 | ||
| Philip Paul Bliss and the musical, cultural, and religious sources of the gospel music tradition in the United States, 1850-1876 | David J Rempel Smucker | http://http://www.worldcat.org/title/philip-paul-bliss-and-the-musical-cultural-and-religious-sources-of-the-gospel-music-tradition-in-the-united-states-1850-1876/oclc/9904291 | Dissertation | 1981 | ||
| Gospel Songwriters Biography | Clarice Howard Baxter; Videt Polk | http://http://www.worldcat.org/title/gospel-song-writers-biography/oclc/163339 | 1971 | |||
| Hymn Treasures | Grace Morrison Everett | http://http://www.worldcat.org/title/hymn-treasures/oclc/7520613 | 1905 | https://archive.org/details/hymntreasures00ever | ||
| Lady Hymnwriters | Emma Raymond Pitman | http://http://www.worldcat.org/title/lady-hymn-writers/oclc/2136182 | 1892 | https://archive.org/details/ladyhymnwriters00pitmgoog | ||
| Hymn-writers and Their Hymns | S. W. (Samuel Woolcock) Christophers | http://www.worldcat.org/title/hymn-writers-and-their-hymns/oclc/16161273 | 1881 | https://archive.org/details/hymnwriterstheir00chri | ||
| Canadian Hymns and Hymn-Writers | A. W. (Alexander Wylie) Mahon (1853-1930) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/canadian-hymns-and-hymn-writers/oclc/18713423 | 1908 | https://archive.org/details/canadianhymnshym00maho | I. William Bullock, 1797-1874. II. Joseph Scrivens, 1820-1886. III. Robert Murray, 1832. IV. Edward Hartley Dewart, 1828-1903. V. Anna Louisa Walker, 1836-1907. VI. Silas Tertius Rand, 1810-1890. VII. Charles Innis Cameron, 1837-1879. VIII. Frederick George Scott, 1861. | |
| The hymns and hymn writers of the church : an annotated edition of the Methodist hymnal | Methodist Episcopal Church; Wilbur Fisk Tillett; Charles Sumner Nutter (1842-1928) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/hymns-and-hymn-writers-of-the-church-an-annotated-edition-of-the-methodist-hymnal/oclc/927662 | 1911 | https://archive.org/details/hymnshymnwriters00meth | ||
| The Romance of Women Hymn-writers | Frederick William Pitt | http://www.worldcat.org/title/romance-of-women-hymn-writers/oclc/7357990 | 1900 | https://archive.org/details/romanceom00pitt | Annie Steele; Harriet Auber; Mrs. Ann Gilbert; Charlotte Elliott; Elizabeth Clephane; Caroline Maria Noel; Mrs. Anne Ross Cousin; Fanny Crosby; Anna Letitia Waring; Frances Ridley Havergal; Sarah Adams; Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander; Jean Ingelow; Charitie Lees Smith; Sarah Doudney | |
| Baptist Hymn Writers and Their Hymns | Henry S. (Sweetser) Burrage, D.D. (1837-1926) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/baptist-hymn-writers-and-their-hymns/oclc/3322567 | 1888 | https://archive.org/details/baptisthymnwrit00burrgoog | ||
| The Latin Hymn-Writers and Their Hymns | Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1843-1887) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/latin-hymn-writers-and-their-hymns/oclc/1422645 | 1889 | https://archive.org/details/latinhymnwriters00duffuoft | The praise service of the early church -- The study of the Latin hymns -- Hilary of Poitiers and the earliest Latin hymn -- Pope Damasus and the beginning of rhyme -- Ambrose -- Prudentius, the first Christian poet -- Ennodius, biship of pavia -- Caelius Sedulius and his alphabet hymn -- Venantius Fortunatus, the troubadour -- Gregorius Magnus -- The venerable bede -- Rabanus Maurus, author of "veni, creator" -- Notker of St. Fall, called Balbulus --Walafrid Strabo -- Hermannus Contractus and the "veni sancta spiritus" -- Peter Damiani, cardinal and flagellant -- Hildebert and his hymn -- Bernard of Clairvaux -- Aberlard -- Perter the venerable -- Bernard of Cluny -- Adam of St. Victor -- Thomas of Celano -- Thaomas Aquina and John Bonaventura -- Jacoponus and the "stabat mater" -- Thomas A Kempis -- Francis Xavier, missionary to the Indies -- The hymn-writers and the breviary -- The unknown and the less known hymn writers -- Unknown and less know hymn-writers -- Latin hymnology and Protestantism -- | |
| Isaac Watts and Contemporary Hymn-Writers | Thomas Wright (1859-1936) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/isaac-watts-and-contemporary-hymn-writers/oclc/4066167 | 1914 | https://archive.org/details/isaacwattsandcon00wriguoft | ||
| American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns | Henry Wilder Foote (1875-1964) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/american-unitarian-hymn-writers-and-hymns/oclc/2061634 | 1959 | https://archive.org/details/AmericanUnitarianHymnWritersAndHymns | ||
| The Church and The Hymn-Writers | George Currie Martin (1865-1937) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/church-and-the-hymn-writers/oclc/2079630 | 1928 | https://archive.org/details/thechurchandhymn00martuoft | ||
| The Book of praise: from the best English hymn writers | Roundell Palmer, Earl of Selborne (1812-1895) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/book-of-praise-from-the-best-english-hymn-writers/oclc/22266995 | 1864 | https://archive.org/details/bookpraisefromb06selbgoog | ||
| Christian hymns and hymn writers: a course of lectures | John Eustace Prescott | http://www.worldcat.org/title/christian-hymns-and-hymn-writers/oclc/12328105 | 1886 | https://archive.org/details/christianhymnshy00pres | ||
| The hymns and hymn writers of The Church Hymnary | John Brownlie | http://www.worldcat.org/title/hymns-and-hymn-writers-of-the-church-hymnary/oclc/40713543 | 1899 | https://archive.org/details/MN41363ucmf_0 | ||
| The Hymn-book of the Modern Church: Studies of Hymns and Hymn-writers | Arthur Edwin Gregory | http://www.worldcat.org/title/hymn-book-of-the-modern-church-brief-studies-of-hymns-and-hymn-writers/oclc/1383619 | 1905 | https://archive.org/details/hymnbookmodernc00greggoog | http://www.worldcat.org/title/hymn-book-of-the-modern-church-brief-studies-of-hymns-and-hymn-writers/oclc/1383619 | |
| Hymns and hymn makers | Duncan Campbell (1847-1903) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/hymns-and-hymn-makers/oclc/2572016 | 1898 | https://archive.org/details/makers00camp | ||
| Our hymn writers: being biographical notices of the authors of the hymns | Presbyterian Church in Canada. Hymn Book Committee | http://www.worldcat.org/title/our-hymn-writers-being-biographical-notices-of-the-authors-of-the-hymns/oclc/11336318 | 1880 | https://archive.org/details/cihm_32110 | ||
| Memoirs of the principal hymn-writers and compilers of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries | John Gadsby (1809-1893) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/memoirs-of-the-principal-hymn-writers-and-compilers-of-the-17th-18th-19th-centuries/oclc/5884301 | 1870 | https://archive.org/details/prinhym00gads | ||
| Lyra Britannica, a collection of British hymns, with biographical sketches of the hymn writers | Charles Rogers | http://www.worldcat.org/title/lyra-britannica-a-collection-of-british-hymns-printed-from-the-genuine-texts-with-biographical-sketches-of-the-hymn-writers/oclc/39334241 | 1867 | https://archive.org/details/lyrabritannicaa00unkngoog | ||
| The hymns and hymn writers of the church: an annotated edition of the Methodist hymnal | Methodist Episcopal Church; Wilbur Fisk Tillet (1854-1936); Charles Sumner Nutter (184201928) | 1915 | https://archive.org/details/22256124.1241.emory.edu | Worldcat has no reference for this edition (1915) but does have two earlier editions, 1911 and 1891. | ||
| The Voice of Christian Life in Song: Or, Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages | Elizabeth Rundle Charles | http://www.worldcat.org/title/voice-of-christian-life-in-song-or-hymns-and-hymn-writers-of-many-lands-and-ages-by-the-author-of-tales-and-sketches-of-christian-life-ie-elizabeth-charles/oclc/558961811 | 1865 | https://archive.org/details/voicechristianl03chargoog | ||
| Singers and songs of the Church, sketches of the hymn-writers | Josiah Miller | http://www.worldcat.org/title/singers-and-songs-of-the-church-being-biographical-sketches-of-the-hymn-writers-in-all-the-principal-collections-with-notes-on-their-psalms-and-hymns/oclc/85890412 | 1869 | https://archive.org/details/singersandsongs01millgoog | ||
| The singers and their songs: sketches of living Gospel hymn writers | Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (1856-1932) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/singers-and-their-songs-sketches-of-living-gospel-hymn-writers/oclc/4282849 | 1916 | https://archive.org/details/singerstheirsong00gabr | Fanny Crosby; Eben E. Rexford; Jessie Brown Pounds Lewis Hartsough Eliza Edmunds Hewitt Christopher R. Blackall many others | |
| Schwenkfelder hymnology: and the sources of the first Schwenkfelder hymn-book printed in America | Allen Anders Seipt | http://www.worldcat.org/title/schwenkfelder-hymnology-and-the-sources-of-the-first-schwenkfelder-hymn-book-printed-in-america/oclc/285513 | 1909 | https://archive.org/details/schwenkfelderhym00seip | Probably republished around 1971 according to the Worldcat record. Introduction.--Descriptive bibliography (p. 17-36)--The Schwenkfelder hymn-writers of the 16th and 17th centuries.--Hymns used by the Schwenkfelders before 1762.--Caspar Weiss: the originator of the Schwenkfelder hymn-book.--George Weiss: writer and compiler of hymns.--Balthaser Hoffmann, Christopher Hoffmann, and Hans Christoph Huebner.--Christopher Schultz and the printed hymn-book.--Bibliography (p. 111-112) | |
| The poets of the church: a series of biographical sketches of hymn-writers with notes on their hymns | Edwin Francis Hatfield (1807-1883) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/poets-of-the-church-a-series-of-biographical-sketches-of-hymn-writers-with-notes-on-their-hymns/oclc/2723067 | 1884 | https://archive.org/details/poetsofchurchser00hatf | ||
| A Treasure of hymns: brief biographies of one hundred and twenty leading hymn-writers with their best hymns | Amos Russell Wells (1862-1933) | http://www.worldcat.org/title/treasure-of-hymns-brief-biographies-of-one-hundred-and-twenty-leading-hymn-writers-with-their-best-hymns/oclc/131403 | 1914 | https://archive.org/details/treasurehy00well | All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name|Edward Perronet A Mighty Fortress Is Our God|Martin Luther Calm on the Listening Ear of Nigh|Edmund Hamilton Sears O Little Town of Bethlehem|Bishop Brooks From Greenland's Icy Mountains|Bishop Heber Speed Away|Fanny Crosby How Firm a Foundation|Probably by Robert Keene My Country'Tis of Thee|Samuel Francis Smith God Bless Our Native Land|Charles TBrooks and John SDwight JesusLover of My Soul|Charles Wesley Nearer My Godto Thee|Sarah Flower Adams Just as I Am|Charlotte Elliott Rock of Ages|Augustus M. Toplady Take My Life|Frances Ridley Havergal My Faith Looks Up to Thee|Ray Palmer In the Cross of Christ I Glory|Sir John Bowring Sun of My Soul|John Keble Am I a Soldier of the Cross|Isaac Watts Stand UpStand Up for Jesus|George Duffield Onward Christian Soldiers|Sabine Baring-Gould Awake My Soul|Bishop Thomas Ken Abide with Me|Henry Francis Lyte God Be with You Till We Meet Again|J.E. Rankin O Day of Rest and Gladness|Bishop Wordsworth In This Consecration Hour|Howard Benjamin Grose Blest Be the Tie That Binds|John Fawcett If You Cannot on the Ocean|Ellen M. Huntington Gates Art Thou Weary Art Thou Languid|John Mason Neale Courage Brother! Do Not Stumble|Norman Macleod Two Empires by the Sea|George Huntington Summer Suns Are Glowing|William Walsham How Behold! A Stranger at the Door|Joseph Grigg Bright Was the Guiding Star That Led|Harriet Auber Father Let Me Dedicate|Lawrence Tuttiett Oh, Could I Speak the Matchless Worth|Samuel Medley Crown Him with Many Crowns|Matthew Bridges O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go|George Matheson Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee|Bernard of Clairvaux Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned|Samuel Stennett The Battle Hymn of the Republic|Julia Ward Howe For the Beauty of the Earth|Folliott Sandford Pierpoint Onward Christian Though the Region|Samuel Johnson Golden Day So Long Desired|Charles Albert Dickinson In the Field with Their Flocks|Frederic William Farrar RiseMy Souland Stretch Thy Wings|Robert Seagrave Sweet Hour of Prayer|William W. Walford The Day of Resurrection|St. John of Damascus While Thee I SeekProtecting Power|Helen Maria Williams I Love Thy Kingdom Lord|Timothy Dwight Hail! Columbia|Joseph Hopkinson The Sands of Time Are Sinking|Annie Ross Cousin There Are Lonely Hearts to Cherish|George Cooper What Shall the Harvest Be|Emily Sullivan Oakey The God of Abraham Praise|Thomas Olivers There's a Song in the Air|Josiah Gilbert Holland When Morning Gilds the Skies|Edward Caswall Somebody Did a Golden Deed|John RClements O God the Rock of Ages|Edward Henry Bicker steth LordIt Belongs Not to My CareRichard Baxter Lord How Full of Sweet Content|Madame Guyon Cast Thy Burden on the Lord|Rowland Hill The Breaking Waves Dashed High|Felicia Dorothea Hemans There Is a Happy Land |Andrew Young I Am So Glad That Our Father in Heaven|P.P. Bliss When He Cometh |William Orcutt Cushing Day by Day the Manna Fell|Josiah Conder Shout the Glad Tidings|William Augustus Muhlenberg JesusSaviourPilot Me|Edward Hopper Let Us with a Gladsome Mind|John Milton We Give Thee Thanks O God This Day|Robert M. Offord Break Thou the Bread of Life|Mary Artemisia Lathbury StillStill with Thee|Harriet Beecher Stozve Come Ye Thankful People Come|Henry Alford Softly Now the Light of Day|George Washington Doane Lord! While for All Mankind We Pray|John Reynell Wreford ComeYe Disconsolate|Thomas Moore Oh Worship the King All-glorious Above|Robert Grant We Thank TheeLordfor This Fair Earth |George Edward Lynch Cotton Once in Royal David's City|Cecil Frances Alexander While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night|Nahum Tate Great God! We Sing Thy Mighty Hand|Philip Doddridge Father, I Know That All My Life|Anna Laetitia Waring O, Where Are Kings and Empires Now|Arthur Cleveland Coxe Come, Said Jesus' Sacred Voice|Anna Laetitia Barbauld That Sweet Story of Old|Jemima Luke The Star-Spangled Banner|Francis Scott Key Lord of All Being Throned Afar|Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| Half-Hours With The Methodist Hymn-book | Mary Champness | http://www.worldcat.org/title/half-hours-with-the-methodist-hymn-book/oclc/3449962 | 1905 | https://archive.org/details/halfhourswiththe00chamuoft | ||
| This Side of Heaven | Ira F. Stanphill; Earl Green | www.worldcat.org/title/this-side-of-heaven/oclc/10587994 | 1983 | Stanphill's autobiography | ||
| Gospel Hymns and Social Religion: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century REvivalism | Sandra S. Sizer | http://www.worldcat.org/title/gospel-hymns-and-social-religion-the-rhetoric-of-nineteenth-century-revivalism/oclc/483242233 | 0877221411 | 1978 | May be available in S.A. @ UTSA, Oblate School of Theology | |
| The Gospel Side of Elvis: | Joe Moscheo and Priscilla Presley | http://www.worldcat.org/title/gospel-side-of-elvis/oclc/1023226610 | 978-147894363 | 2017 | ||
| Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement: Confessions of a Former Worship Leader | Dan Lucarini | http://www.worldcat.org/title/why-i-left-the-contemporary-christian-music-movement-confessions-of-a-former-worship-leader/oclc/987259285 | 978-085234517 | 2002 | ||
| Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music | W.K. McNeil | https://www.worldcat.org/title/encyclopedia-of-american-gospel-music/oclc/863112135 | 97804158756 | 2005 | ||
| Biography of Gospel Song Writers | Cliarice Howard Baxter; Videt Polk | https://www.worldcat.org/title/gospel-song-writers-biography/oclc/163339 | 1971 | One of the authors was the widow of J.R. Baxter, Jr. (1887-1960) who was part owner of the Stamps-Baxter Publishing Co. | ||
| Gospel Music Encyclopedia | Robert Anderson; Gail North | https://www.worldcat.org/title/gospel-music-encyclopedia/oclc/600886736 | 0806901756 | 1979 | @ San Antonio Public Library (Central) |