COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Notes to Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Beginnings of a Singing Movement -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Origins and Settings of the Spirituals -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: The Spiritual as Protest Songs -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Interlude: The Post-Civil War Era Through the Great Migration -- Notes to Interlude -- Chapter 3: Union Songs, Protest Songs, and the Spirituals -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: The Beginnings of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, the Influence of Radio, and the Rise of Gospel Music -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Montgomery: Black Sacred Song in the Modern Civil Rights Movement -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- COVER Back.