Finding Books, CDs, DVDs
Library Search will locate books, CDs, streaming music and videos in the library collection. CDs and streaming music often have lyrics and liner notes (written text about the recording) that you can use in your research.
- To find individual songs, type the title of the song in quotes
"move on up a little higher"
- Use Limits to search by format (sound recording, video)
Books @Gitenstein Library
Uncloudy days : the gospel music encyclopediaCall Number: ML102.G6 C37 2005 (Music Reference Collection, 4th floor)
Nothing but Love in God's Water by Call Number: ML3556 .D33 2014
Singing in My Soul : Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age by Call Number: ML3187 .J23 2004
We'll Understand It Better by and By by Call Number: ML390 .W274 1992
Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first centuryCall Number: E185 .E5453 2009 Reference
Songsters and Saints by Call Number: ML3556 .O466 1984
Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field by Call Number: ML420.J17 B87 2019
Listening to Gospel Artists
Smithsonian Global Sound Database
While gospel music has enjoyed much commercial success, the music starts in and remains tied to local churches and communities. The streaming music database Smithsonian Global Sound has the uplifting sounds of gospel from field recordings in small churches, to legends such as the Fisk Jubilee Singers and Mahalia Jackson, and modern interpreters like Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Use "search inside this collection" for specific songs or artists, or browse by the genre Gospel Music using left menu.