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.

"A groundbreaking study." --Black Perspectives"The beauty of Claudrena N. Harold's brilliant When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras is in how it illustrates the power of gospel music to maintain its character, grow from its roots, evolve to reach new listeners, and spiral steadily upward in its call-and-response to new audiences who acclaim the uplifting spiritual strength and enduring beauty of the music. " --No Depression"A multilensed view of a continually evolving and consistently vibrant art form. For gospel fans, music scholars, and scholars of African American history and culture generally." --Library Journal

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument: The Artistry and Cultural Politics of Reverend James ClevelandChapter 2. A Special Kind of Witness: Andraé Crouch, the Growth of Contemporary Christian Music, and the Politics of RaceChapter 3. Hold My Mule: Shirley Caesar and the Gospel of the New SouthChapter 4. A Wonderful Change: Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive ExplosionChapter 5. Higher Plane: The Gospel According to Al GreenChapter 6. The Only Thing Right Left in a Wrong World: The Clark Sisters, the Winans, Commissioned, and the Search for Cultural Authority in the 1980sChapter 7. If I Be Lifted: Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community SingersChapter 8. Through It All: Vanessa Bell Armstrong and the Perils of CrossoverChapter 9. Hold Up the Light: The Crossover Success of BeBe and CeCe WinansChapter 10. Outside the County Line: The Southern Soul of John P. KeeChapter 11. We Are the Drum: Take 6, the Sounds of Blackness, and the New Black AestheticEpilogue: Do You Want a Revolution? Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and the Beginning of a New Era in Gospel MusicNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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.

"A groundbreaking study." --Black Perspectives"The beauty of Claudrena N. Harold's brilliant When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras is in how it illustrates the power of gospel music to maintain its character, grow from its roots, evolve to reach new listeners, and spiral steadily upward in its call-and-response to new audiences who acclaim the uplifting spiritual strength and enduring beauty of the music. " --No Depression"A multilensed view of a continually evolving and consistently vibrant art form. For gospel fans, music scholars, and scholars of African American history and culture generally." --Library Journal

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument: The Artistry and Cultural Politics of Reverend James ClevelandChapter 2. A Special Kind of Witness: Andraé Crouch, the Growth of Contemporary Christian Music, and the Politics of RaceChapter 3. Hold My Mule: Shirley Caesar and the Gospel of the New SouthChapter 4. A Wonderful Change: Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive ExplosionChapter 5. Higher Plane: The Gospel According to Al GreenChapter 6. The Only Thing Right Left in a Wrong World: The Clark Sisters, the Winans, Commissioned, and the Search for Cultural Authority in the 1980sChapter 7. If I Be Lifted: Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community SingersChapter 8. Through It All: Vanessa Bell Armstrong and the Perils of CrossoverChapter 9. Hold Up the Light: The Crossover Success of BeBe and CeCe WinansChapter 10. Outside the County Line: The Southern Soul of John P. KeeChapter 11. We Are the Drum: Take 6, the Sounds of Blackness, and the New Black AestheticEpilogue: Do You Want a Revolution? Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and the Beginning of a New Era in Gospel MusicNotesSelected BibliographyIndex