When Sunday Comes

Claudrena N. Harold is a professor of African American and African Studies and History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South and The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument: The Artistry and Cultural Politics of Reverend James Cleveland

Chapter 2. A Special Kind of Witness: Andraé Crouch, the Growth of Contemporary Christian Music, and the Politics of Race

Chapter 3. Hold My Mule: Shirley Caesar and the Gospel of the New South

Chapter 4. A Wonderful Change: Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive Explosion

Chapter 5. Higher Plane: The Gospel According to Al Green

Chapter 6. The Only Thing Right Left in a Wrong World: The Clark Sisters, the Winans, Commissioned, and the Search for Cultural Authority in the 1980s

Chapter 7. If I Be Lifted: Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Singers

Chapter 8. Through It All: Vanessa Bell Armstrong and the Perils of Crossover

Chapter 9. Hold Up the Light: The Crossover Success of BeBe and CeCe Winans

Chapter 10. Outside the County Line: The Southern Soul of John P. Kee

Chapter 11. We Are the Drum: Take 6, the Sounds of Blackness, and the New Black Aesthetic

Epilogue: Do You Want a Revolution? Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and the Beginning of a New Era in Gospel Music

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index