Through interviews, musical analyses, and examination of historical documents and relevant scholarship, Terri Brinegar argues that the development of the phonograph in the 1920s afforded preachers like Reverend A.W. Nix the opportunity to present traditional Black vocal styles of the southern Black church as modern Black voices.

Through interviews, musical analyses, and examination of historical documents and relevant scholarship, Terri Brinegar argues that the development of the phonograph in the 1920s afforded preachers like Reverend A.W. Nix the opportunity to present traditional Black vocal styles of the southern Black church as modern Black voices.

A convent children's home run by monsters. A heartbreaking family secret that haunted us for 50 years.

Describes Yeats's progress from childhood through a bohemian life of love-affairs, artistic development, and political involvements, to his 50th year. Drawing on a great archive of personal and contemporary material, the author charts the growth of a poet's mind and of an astonishing personality.

Written with Matt Eversmann, the real-life hero of Black Hawk Down, James Patterson brings us true stories of life on the battlefront