Finding Books, CDs, DVDs
Use the Gitenstein Library Catalog to locate books, CDs, streaming music and videos in the library collection. CDs and streaming music often has 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)
Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2021
Singing in My Soul : Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age by Call Number: ML3187 .J23 2004Publication Date: 2004
Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first centuryCall Number: E185 .E5453 2009 ReferencePublication Date: 2009
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.