Gospel Hymns
& Sunday School Songs
Related Resources:
A.J. Showalter, The Best Gospel Songs and Their Composers (Dalton, GA: A.J. Showalter, 1904): Archive.org
Ira Sankey, My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1906): Archive.org
J.H. Hall, Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers (NY: Fleming H. Revell, 1914): Archive.org
Charles H. Gabriel, Gospel Songs and Their Writers (Chicago: Rodeheaver, 1915): Archive.org
Charles H. Gabriel, The Singers and Their Songs: Sketches of Living Gospel Hymn Writers (Chicago: Rodeheaver, 1916): Archive.org
William Ernest Denham, The Gospel Song Movement, dissertation (Louisville: The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1916): SBTS
George C. Stebbins, Reminiscences and Gospel Hymn Stories (NY: George H. Doran, 1924).
Homer Rodeheaver, Hymnal Handbook for Standard Hymns and Gospel Songs (Chicago: Rodeheaver, 1931).
George W. Sanville, Forty Gospel Hymn Stories (Winona Lake, IN: Rodeheaver-Hall Mack Co., 1943).
William G. McLoughlin, Jr., Modern Revivalism: Charles Grandison Finney to Billy Graham (New York, 1959).
Cliff Barrows & Billy Graham, Crusade Hymn Stories (Chicago: Hope, 1967).
Melvin Wilhoit, A Guide to the Principal Authors and Composers of Gospel Song of the Nineteenth Century, dissertation (Louisville: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1982): SBTS
Virginia Ann Cross, The Development of Sunday School Hymnody in the United States of America, 1816–1869, dissertation (New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1985).
Esther Heidi Rothenbusch, The Role of Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 (1875–1894) in American Revivalism, dissertation (University of Michigan, 1991): WorldCat
Samuel J. Rogal, Sing Glory and Hallelujah! Historical and Biographical Guide to Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 Complete (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996).
Esther Rothenbusch, “‘Is not this the land of Beulah?’: The search for the Holy Spirit in American gospel hymns,” Review & Expositor, vol. 94, no. 1 (Feb. 1997), pp. 53–77: DOI
Edith L. Blumhofer, “Fanny Crosby, William Doane, and the making of gospel hymns in the late nineteenth century,” Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2006), pp. 152–171.
Virginia Ann Cross, “The music of American Sunday Schools before 1875,” Hymnology in the Service of the Church: Essays in Honor of Harry Eskew (Fenton, MO: MorningStar Music Publishers, 2008), pp. 5–25; also revised as “Sunday school hymns, USA,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology: http://www.hymnology.co.uk/s/sunday-school-hymns,-usa
Mel R. Wilhoit, “Sing a Sankey: The rise of gospel hymnody in Great Britain,” Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain, ed. Martin Clarke (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 97–116.
David W. Music, “I sing for I cannot be silent: Gospel and revival hymnody in the twentieth century,” New Songs of Celebration Render: Congregational Song in the Twenty-First Century, ed. C. Michael Hawn (Chicago: GIA, 2013), pp. 105–127: Amazon
Robert J. Morgan, “American gospel song movement,” Hymns and Hymnody, vol. 3 (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2019), pp. 65–79.
Harry Eskew, “Gospel songs and hymns, USA,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology: http://www.hymnology.co.uk/g/gospel-songs-and-hymns,-usa
Related Authors and Composers:
Charles Alexander
Philip P. Bliss
William Bradbury
Albert Brumley
Thomas Chisholm
Fanny Crosby
William H. Doane
E.O. Excell
Charles Gabriel
Ada Habershon
Robert Harkness
Annie Hawks
Stuart K. Hine
Elisha Hoffman
William J. Kirkpatrick
Phebe Palmer Knapp
Robert Lowry
Johnson Oatman Jr.
Horatio R. Palmer
William Runyan
Ira Sankey
Horatio Spafford
Judson W. Van De Venter
Anna Bartlett Warner