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Black British Gospel Music is a dynamic and multifaceted musical practice, a diasporic river rooted in the experiences of Black British Christian communities. This book examines gospel music in Britain in both historical and contemporary perspectives, demonstrating the importance of this this vital genre to scholars across disciplines. Drawing on a plurality of voices, the book examines the diverse streams that contribute to and flow out of this significant genre. Gospel can be heard resonating within a diverse array of Christian worship spaces; as a form of community music-making in school halls; and as a foundation for 'secular' British popular music, including R&B, hip hop and grime.
List of contents
Introduction: Rivers of Babylon: Contextualizing Black British Gospel Music
Pauline Muir, Dulcie Dixon McKenzie, and Monique M. Ingalls
1 Look Where God has Brought Us! Remembering the Religious Foundations of Black British Gospel Music
Dulcie Dixon McKenzie
2 'Gifts and Talents': Sacred and secular musical performance at a suburban British Pentecostal church
Natalie Hyacinth
3 Just Like Church, Not Like Church, or Better Than Church? Community Gospel Choirs as Lived Religion and Convivial Spiritual Practice in the Contemporary United Kingdom
Monique M. Ingalls
4 Black British Gospel Music: A Perspective from A Reluctant Choir Director
Geraldine Latty Luce
5 Black British Gospel-Pop Crossover: 'Gospel Codes' in the Music of Stormzy and Mica Paris
Matthew Williams
6 The 'sacred' and 'secular' interplay within gospel grime performance
Samson Tosin Onafuye
7 Don't shoot the Messi(nJ)ah: Charting the growth of the Gospel in Great British Grime music
Monique Charles
8 The Jamaican Bible Remix: A theomusicological praxis for bridging the gap between Black Liberation Theology and Contemporary Gospel Music in Britain
Robert Beckford
9 Black British Gospel Music and the Question of Belief (in God)
Alexander Douglas
10 Decolonising Congregational Music
Pauline Muir
11 Black British Gospel Music Past, Present, and Future: Final Reflections from the Editors
Dulcie Dixon McKenzie, Pauline Muir, and Monique M. Ingalls
Afterword: We Need Black Power, Lord! Reflections on Black British Gospel Music
William Ackah
