Gospel Songs Your Choir Will Love To Sing: An Annotated Resource Guide Compiled by Donna Cox 1 A 2007 publication of Donna Cox Ministries, a subsidiary of Personal Best Ministries, LLC. All Rights Reserved. This project is lovingly dedicated to Gerald, my husband and partner for 25 years, Jonathan and Jamie, young adults who make me proud to be called ‘Mom,’ the thousands of singers I have had the privilege of teaching, cajoling, nurturing and fussing at, the many teachers who have blessed me by attending workshops and sessions I’ve conducted and most importantly, my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who anointed me to preach the gospel (Luke 4:18) and equipped me with a passion and love for preaching through song. Transformation Through Education: Building God’s People By Renewing the Mind, Body and Spirit. Romans 2:2 2 Gospel Songs Your Choir Will Love To Sing: An Annotated Resource Guide Compiled by Dr. Donna M. Cox Personal Best Ministries, LLC 211 Stratford Lane Xenia, OH 45385 937-372-0514
[email protected] Copyright 2006 All rights reserved No Part Of This Guide May Be Copied, Used or Distributed Without The Written Permission of Personal Best Ministries, LLC 3 Introduction I love gospel music! It is not just because I am a Christian and a minister that gospel music is my favorite genre. I love it for a number of reasons. First, the uninformed view gospel music through the narrow lenses of Eurocentric hegemony. The beliefs that singing gospel music destroys voices, that all of it sounds the same, that gospel music is not worthy of ‘serious study’ is erroneous and denies the very fabric of American musical history.