Historical perspectives. 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 -- Surveys of hymnals and hymnody. African American song in the nineteenth century / 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 -- Liturgical hymnody. 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. 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 / William B. McClain ; Encountering Jesus in worship / Zan W. Holmes, Jr. ; The dynamics of Black worship / Edward P. Wimberly ; Definitions of praising and a look at Black worship / Brenda Eatman Aghahowa ; Indicted / V. Michael McKay -- Composers. Church music by Black composers: a bibliography / William Burres Garcia ; Introduction / Evelyn Davidson White ; Black composers and religious music / Geneva Southall -- The organ. 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 -- Contemporary perspectives. What lies ahead? / Wyatt Tee Walker ; Conflict and controversy in Black religious music / Mellonee V. Burnim ; Church music: a position paper / 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.