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Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field, by Mark Burford (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)

 

People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music, by Robert Darden (New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2004)

 

Speak Now Against the Day, by John Egerton (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994)

 

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: Penguin Press, 2021)

 

The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations, by Anthony Heilbut (New York: Alfred K. Knopf, 2012)

 

Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall, by Joseph Horowitz (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005)

 

Dvorak's Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music, by Joseph Horowitz (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2022)

 

The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City, by Benjamin Houston (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2012)

 

I have always been In the Hands of God, An Autobiography of the Life of Dr. J. Robert Bradley, as told to Amos Jones, Jr. (Nashville: Townsend Press, Sunday School Publishing Board, National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., 1993)

 

Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis, by Preston Lauterbach (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015)

 

Charles Faulkner Bryan: His Life and Music, by Carolyn Livingston (University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 2003)

 

A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music, by Robert M. Marovich (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2015)

 

Singing in a Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America, by Nick Salvatore (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005)

 

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson (New York: Vintage Books, 2011)