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Jerma A. Jackson
Jerma A. Jackson

Research Interests: Jerma A. Jackson’s main research interest is twentieth century social and cultural history, with a special interest on African American life, religion, music and women’s history. In her first book Jackson engaged music to examine black life and culture, tracing gospel from its beginnings as a mode of worship to its expansion into commercialized culture during the forties and fifties. Jackson uses the music to examine some of the mounting changes that unfolded in the twentieth century—expanding industrialization and urban migration, the growth of consumer values and materialism, and the emergence of mass produced culture. With gospel as her focus then, she considers how African Americans gave meaning to these developments. Jackson moves from the public sphere of churches, auditoriums and concert halls to the private realm of black family life for her second book project. She explores how personal memories of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction circulated in black families and communities in the twentieth century.

  • Singing in My Soul

    November 28, 2012

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895607.Singing_in_My_Soul Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age by Jerma A. Jackson  …

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