The Mahalia Jackson Reader

Contents

• PART I: Louisiana Roots
• 1. Mahalia Jackson and Evan McLeod Wylie: Gumstump (1966)
• 2. Mahala Jackson's Birth Certificate (1911)
• 3. Laurraine Goreau: Mahalia Jackson in New Orleans (1975)
• 4. Mahalia Jackson: Childhood Memories (1952)
• 5. Octavia Randolph: For the Record (1955)
• 6. U.S. Census: Mahaly Jackson at Aunt Duke's (1930)
• PART II: Commentary, Conversation, and Critical Appraisal
• 7. Bucklin Moon: A Great Gospel Singer (1949)
• 8. Bernice Bass: Louisiana Cinderella (1951)
• 9. Evelyn Cunningham: Mahalia the Mystery (1954)
• 10. Marshall Stearns: Jazz, Metronome Sense, and Blue Tonality (1956)
• 11. Mason Sargent: Meet Mahalia Jackson (1954)
• 12. George T. Simon: A Veteran Gospel Singer Thinks Jazz Should Have a Soul but Gospel Penetrates Deeper (1954)
• 13. Nat Hentoff: You Can Still Hear Her Voice When the Music Has Stopped (1957)
• 14. Raymond Horricks: Mahalia's Emotional Performance at Newport Festival (1958)
• 15. Langston Hughes: Singer of Gospel Songs (1955)
• 16. Ralph Ellison: As the Spirit Moves Mahalia (1958)
• 17. Alex Haley: She Makes a Joyful Music (1961)
• 18. Malcolm X: Fishing and Filling Up at the Storefronts (1964)
• 19. Duke Ellington: Come Sunday (1973)
• 20. Studs Terkel: Thomas A. Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson (1973/2005)
• 21. Hans Rookmaaker: Visiting Mahalia Jackson (1962)
• 22. Hettie Jones: Mahalia Jackson (1974)
• 23. Whitney Balliett: Halie (1972 and 1975)
• 24. Leonard Feather: Mahalia and Her Principles (1962)
• 25. Leonard Feather: A Talk with Mahalia Jackson (1964)
• 26. Leonard Feather: Mahalia Keeps the Faith in Turbulent Times (1969)
• 27. Leonard Feather: Mahalia's Gospel Truth in Asia (1971)
• 28. Anthony Heilbut: Mahalia the Queen (1971)
• PART III: Press Coverage
• 29. Evangelist in Recital at Cleveland (1938)
• 30. Honored by Dayton Gospel Fans (1952)
• 31. Rob Roy: Boy, the Ear Muffs, Those Gospel Discs are Here (1953)
• 32. George F. Brown: It's the Gospel Truth (1953)
• 33. Jack Saunders: Mahalia Jackson Raps Glamour Gospel Singing (1954)
• 34. Dawn Francis: Mahalia and Clara in Hot Contest of Gospel Singers (1955)
• 35. Langston Hughes: Gospel Singers and Gospel Swingers are Gone (1953)
• 36. Spiritual Artists Survive Great Slump-Others feel Pinch (1954)
• 37. Gospel Singing!...It's Big Business! (1955)
• 38. Bishop William Jacob Walls: Swinging Spirituals? (1960)
• 39. Review of Since the Fire Started Burning in My Soul b/w In My Home Over There (1951)
• 40. Mahalia Jackson and Sarah Vaughan (1951)
• 41. Mahalia Jackson Given Top French Music Award (1951)
• 42. Ollie Stewart: Report from Europe (1952)
• 43. Songs in Bethlehem (1952)
• 44. Letter to Izzy Rowe from Israel (1953)
• 45. Jean-Robert Masson: The Place of Mahalia Jackson (1961/1972)
• 46. Manfred Sack: The Voice of the Other America (1981)
• PART IV: Mahalia Jackson and Her Circle in Their Own Words
• 47. Mahalia Jackson: Gospel Singing (1951)
• 48. Mahalia Jackson: 1950 Carnegie Hall Debut (1967)
• 49. Mahalia Jackson: A Made-up Mind (1963)
• 50. Sallie Martin: Mentoring Mahalia Jackson (1972)
• 51. Brother John Sellers: Rooting for Mahalia Jackson (1972)
• 52. Alice McClarity: Being Mentored by Mahalia Jackson (2011)
• 53. Alfred Duckett: Celebrating Mahalia Jackson (1955)
• 54. Mildred Falls: Playing for Mahalia Jackson (1972)
• 55. Louise Overall Weaver: On the Road with Mahalia Jackson (1982)
• PART V: Scholarly Literature
• 56. Willie Jennings: The Black Sacred Singer of Sacred Song as an Icon (1989)
• 57. Horace Clarence Boyer: The Vocal Style of Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Singer (1990)
• 58. Michael Harris: Thomas A. Dorsey's Training of Mahalia Jackson (1992)
• 59. Robert Marovich: She's the Empress! The Empress! (2015)
• 60. Adam Green: Making the Music (2007)
• 61. Johari Jabir: On Conjuring Mahalia (2009)
• 62. Emily Lordi: Ralph Ellison's Mahalia Jackson (2013)
• 63. Mark Burford: The Modern Gospel Singer (2014)
• 64. Barry Long: Mahalia Jackson, Jazz, and Signifying Spirituality (2014)
• PART VI: Live Performance
• 65. Gospel Song Diva: Carnegie Hall, October 1, 1950
• 66. Peter Feldman: At the Brooklyn Academy, April 3, 1959
• 67. Dick Flohil: A Salute to Mahalia Jackson, Madison Square Garden, May 24, 1959
• 68. Hugues Panassie: Mahalia Jackson's Triumph: L'Olympia, Paris, April 25, 1961
• 69. Valerie Wilmer: Royal Albert Hall, London, May 18, 1969
• 70. D. A. Rodrigues: Concert Tour to India, April 29-May 8, 1971
• PART VII: The Record Business
• 71. Mahalia Jackson and S. I. Hayakawa: Decca and Apollo (1954)
• 72. Mahalia Jackson: Move on Up A Little Higher (1951)
• 73. Richard Kleiner: Mahalia Jackson Sings for Glory of the Lord (1954)
• 74. Alfred Lorber: Columbia Records Signs Mahalia Jackson (1954)
• 75. George Avakian and Bill Russell: First Columbia Albums (1954-1955)
• 76. Mahalia Jackson: Sweetened-Water Songs (1967)
• 77. John A. Campbell: Letter to John McClure (1973)
• 78. Irving Townsend: Mahalia Jackson the Album Artist (1972)
• PART VIII: Radio, Television, and Film
• 79. S. R. Garlington: Toast of the Town (1952)
• 80. 3,000 Hear Mahalia Jackson (1954)
• 81. Charles Wolfe: Mahalia on the Air, 1954 (1990)
• 82. Edward Sonny Murrain: Appraising The Mahalia Jackson Show (1954-55)
• 83. Willa Saunders Jones: Queen Mahalia at Greater Salem Baptist Church (1955)
• 84. Jules Schwerin: Imitation of Life (1992)
• 85. Mahalia Jackson: Letter to George Avakian about Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)
• PART IX: Bill Russell's Mahalia Jackson Journal
• 86. Bill Russell: Mahalia Jackson Journal, 1954-1955
• PART X: Politics, Activism, and Entrepreneurship
• 87. Conrad Clark: Gospel Queen Threatens to Sue Leftists (1952)
• 88. Rev. James L. Lofton: Letter to John Foster Dulles (1955)
• 89. Mahalia Rocks Walking Folks (1956)
• 90. Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (1957)
• 91. Mahalia Plans Huge Rights Benefit (1963)
• 92. Mahalia Jackson: To All Freedom Fighters (1963)
• 93. Salute to Southern Freedom (1963)
• 94. Lerone Bennett Jr.: The March (1963)
• 95. Craig Werner: Mahalia and the Movement (1998)
• 96. Drew Hansen: Speech and Song (2005)
• 97. Martin Luther King Jr.: Letter to Mahalia Jackson (c. 1964)
• 98. Mahalia Jackson and Granville White: There Hasn't Been a Man Like That Since Jesus (1968)
• 99. Mahalia's House of Flowers
• 100. Mahalia Jackson: The Mahalia Jackson Foundation (1967)
• 101. Mahalia Jackson to Salute Black Women (1969)
• 102. Mahalia Jackson: Self-Help (1971)
• 103. Black Management (1969)
• 104. John T. Edge: Mahalia Jackson's Chicken System (2017)
• 105. Alice Randall: Glori-fried and Glori-fied (2015)
• 106. Mahalia Jackson Cooks Soul (1970)
• 107. Toni Tipton-Martin: Southern Cooking (2015)
• PART XI: Poetry
• 108. Ted Joans: Mahalia Jackson (1968)
• 109. James A. Emanuel: Mahalia Jackson (1999)
• 110. Jacques Reda: Assumption of Mahalia Jackson (1980)
• 111. Michael S. Harper: mahalia: MAHALIA (1975)
• 112. Audre Lorde: The Day They Eulogized Mahalia (1973)
• 113. Quandra Prettyman: When Mahalia Sings (n.d.)
• 114. Ollie Griddine: Poem (c. 1960s)