part 1. Roots. Got on my traveling shoes: black sacred music and the great migration
"When the fire fell": the sanctified church contribution to Chicago gospel music
Sacred music in transition: Charles Henry Pace and the Pace Jubilee Singers
Turn your radio on: Chicago sacred radio broadcast pioneers
"Someday, somewhere": the formation of the gospel nexus
Sweeping through the city: Thomas A. Dorsey and the gospel nexus (1932-1933)
Across this land and country: new songs for a new era (1933-1939)
From Birmingham to Chicago: the great migration of the gospel quartet
part 2. Branches. Sing a gospel song: the 1940s, part one
we have it": the fertile crescent of gospel music publishing
"Move on up a little higher": the 1940s, part two
Postwar gospel quartets: "rock stars of religious music"
The gospel caravan: midcentury melodies
"He could just put a song on his fingers": second-generation gospel choirs
"God's got a television": gospel music comes to the living room
"Tell it like it is": songs of social significance
One of these mornings: Chicago gospel at the crossroads
Appendix A. 1920s African American sacred music recordings made in Chicago
Appendix B. African American sacred music recordings made in Chicago, 1930-1941.
