This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.

Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking volume exploring how sacred music effects religious and social transitions. It covers Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and

In a new edition, the history of a regional record company and the blues, gospel, and R&B greats it launched nationally

"This is the first book since the 1930s to study this important and little-remembered phenomenon of American folk culture. The author interviewed a large number