Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Spiritual: Beginnings and Context
Chapter 2: The Spirituals: Protest Songs
Interlude: The Protest Spirituals: From the Post Civil War Era Through the Great
Migration
Chapter 3: The Spirituals: "There is Power in the Union!"
Chapter 4: The Beginnings of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, the Influence of
Radio, and the Rise of Gospel Music
Chapter 5: Montgomery: Black Sacred Song in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

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The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression. From the spirituals of southern fields and the ringing chords of black gospel to the protest songs that changed the landscape of labor and the cadences sung before dogs and water cannons in Birmingham, sacred song has stood center stage in the African American drama. Myriad interviews, one-of-a-kind sources, and rare or lost recordings are used to examine this enormously persuasive facet of the movement. Nothing but Love in God’s Water explains the historical significance of song and helps us understand how music enabled the civil rights movement to challenge the most powerful nation on the planet.

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