Includes bibliographical references.

Volume 1: Of the faith of the fathers / William Edward Burghardt DuBois -- The Negro spiritual / John W. Work III -- Introducing the African American churches / William D. Watley -- The performed word : music and the Black church / C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya -- The use and performance of hymnody, spirituals, and gospels in the Black church / Portia K. Maultsby -- In the world but not of it / Cheryl J. Sanders -- African American song in the nineteenth century : a neglected source / Irene V. Jackson-Brown -- Hymnals of the Black church / Eileen Southern -- Published hymnals in the African American tradition / Melva Wilson Costen -- Black hymnody / Wendell P. Whalum -- Hymnody of the African American church / Don Lee White -- The liturgy of the Roman rite and African American worship / J-Glenn Murray -- The gift of African American sacred song / Sister Thea Bowman -- Music among Blacks in the Episcopal Church : some preliminary considerations / Irene V. Jackson-Brown -- Why an African American hymnal? / Harold T. Lewis -- Hymns and songs: performance notes / Horace Clarence Boyer -- Service music : performance notes / Carl Haywood -- Worship and culture : an African American Lutheran perspective / Joseph A. Donella II, John Nunes, and Karen M. Ward -- Leading African American song / Mellonee V. Burnim -- Worship activities / Benjamin Elijah Mays and Joseph William Nicholson -- The tradition of worship / William D. Watley -- Some aspects of Black worship / Charles G. Adams -- The liturgy of Zion : the soul of Black worship / William B. McClain -- Encountering Jesus in worship / Zan W. Holmes, Jr. -- The dynamics of Black worship : a psychosocial exploration of the impulses that lie at the roots of Black worship / Edward P. Wimberly -- Definitions of praising and a look at Black worship / Brenda Eatman Aghahowa -- Indicted / V. Michael McKay -- Church music by Black composers : a bibliography / William Burres Garcia -- Introduction from Choral music by African American composers : a selected, annotated bibliography / Evelyn Davidson White -- Black composers and religious music / Geneva Southall -- A history of the pipe organ in the Black church / Wayne A. Barr -- The church organist, African American organ music, and the worship service : a useful guide / Mickey Thomas Terry -- Service playing for organists / James Abbington -- What lies ahead? / Wyatt Tee Walker -- Conflict and controversy in Black religious music / Mellonee V. Burnim -- Church music : a position paper (with special consideration of music in the Black church) / Wendell Phillips Whalum -- Music and worship in the Black church / J. Wendell Mapson, Jr. -- Black sacred music : problems and possibilities / Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. -- Christ against culture : anticulturalism in the gospel of gospel / Jon Michael Spencer -- I am the holy dope dealer : the problem with gospel music today / Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.

Volume 2: Worship and liturgical practices. Twenty-one questions revisited / Valerie Bridgeman Davis -- Lectio divina : a transforming engagement with sacred scripture / Lisa M. Weaver -- Differences in similarity : an examination of the baptismal rite in the Apostolic tradition and the African Methodist Episcopal Church / Lisa M Weaver -- Introduction to Conversations with God : two centuries of prayers by African Americans / James Melvin Washington -- And we shall learn through the dance : exploring the instructional relationship between liturgical dance and religious education / Kathleen S. Turner -- The spiritual arrangement since 1999 and its use in contemporary worship / Leo H. Davis Jr. -- If it had not been for the Lord on my side : hymnody in African American churches / James Abbington -- Liturgical theologies. Black worship : a historical theological interpretation / James H. Cone -- The theological validation of Black worship / Samuel D. Proctor -- Transformational worship in the life of a church / Kenneth C. Ulmer -- I'm going to live the life I sing about in my song / Michael Joseph Brown -- The lyrical theology of Charles A. Tindley : justice come of age / S T Kimbrough, Jr. -- Black megachurches in the internet age : exploring theological teachings and social outreach efforts / Pamela P. Martin, Tuere A. Bowles, LaTrese Adkins, Monica T. Leach -- Proclamation of the Word. Introduction to Preaching with sacred fire : an anthology of African American sermons, 1750 to the present / Martha Simmons, Frank Thomas -- Preaching in the Black church / Ruthlyn Bradshaw -- Prosperity preaching in Black communities / Stephanie Y. Mitchem -- Making the unseen seen : pedagogy and aesthetics in African American prophetic preaching / Kenyatta R. Gilbert -- Lament : homiletical groans in the spirit / Luke A. Powery -- Walkin' the talk : the Spirit and the lived sermon / Luke A. Powery -- When prophetic preaching gives way to praise / Marvin A. McMickle -- Introduction to Power in the pulpit : how America's most effecive Black preachers prepare their sermons / Cleophus J. LaRue -- Hymnody: sound and sense. Gotta moan sometime : a sonic exploration of earwitnesses to early Pentecostal sound in North America / David Douglas Daniels III -- Don't nobody know my troubles but God : discursive, social, and aesthetic connections and distinctives in "sacred" and "secular" Black music / Michael Fox -- Gospel goes to church (again) : Smallwood's hybridity as liturgical compromise / Braxton D. Shelley -- Modes of ritual performance in African American Pentecostalism / Thomasina Neely-Chandler -- Preservation and dissemination : the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project / Robert Darden -- Pentecostalism and Black secular music / Teresa L. Reed -- Perspectives on praise and worship. Back to the heart of worship : praise and worship in a Los Angeles African American megachurch / Birgitta J. Johnson -- Praise is what we do : the rise of praise and worship music in the urban church / Deborah S. Pollard -- This house, this music : exploring the interdependent interpretive relationship between the contemporary Black church and contemporary gospel music / Melinda E. Weekes -- Reflections on praise and worship from a biblical perspective : background, defintions, concepts and constructions / Rodney A. Teal -- Hip Hop and/in the church. Religion and rap music : an analysis of Black church usage / Sandra L. Barnes -- In search of our daughter's gardens : hip hop as womanist prose / Tamura Lomax -- It's not the beat, but it's the word that sets the people free : race, technology, and theology in the emergence of Christian rap music / Josef Sorett -- The promiscuous gospel : the religious complexity and theological multiplicity of rap music / Monica R. Miller -- Building "Zyon" in Babylon : holy hip hop and geographies of conversion / Christina Zanfagna -- From Black theology and Black power to Afrocentric theology and hip hop power : an extension and socio-re-theological conceptualization of Cone's theology in conversation with the hip hop generation / Ralph C. Watkins -- Baptized in dirty water : an ontology of hip hop's manufacturing of socio-religious discourse in Tupac's "Black Jesuz" / Daniel White Hodge -- Perspectives on women and gender. Playin' church : remembering mama and questioning authenticity in Black gospel performance / Alisha Jones -- From spirituals to swing : Sister Rosetta Tharpe and gospel crossover / Gayle Wald -- The spirit of David : negotiating faith and masculinity in Black gospel performance / Melvin L. Butler -- Work the works : the role of African American women in the development of contemporary gospel / Tammy L. Kernodle -- Womanist musings / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan.