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Collection Overview
| Size | 3 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1600 items) |
| Abstract | Contains papers of Jerma A. Jackson, a Black associate professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Materials include research files and transcripts, 35mm slides, photographic prints, and audiocassettes used for Jackson's book, Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age (UNC Press, 2004). Interviews are with African American gospel singers as well as others involved in the church and music business. The materials also include paper transcripts of the interviews and materials related to the Church of God in Christ, the Pentecostal Christian denomination in the United States headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., that include biographical information on women singers. |
| Creator | Jackson, Jerma A. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processing Information
Encoded by: Dawne Howard Lucas, July 2023
Updated by: Rebecca Stubbs and Laura Smith, September 2023
Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.
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Biographical Information
Jerma A. Jackson is a Black associate professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her main research interest is twentieth century social and cultural history, with a special interest on African American life, religion, music and women's history. In her book Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age (UNC Press, 2004), Jackson used music to examine black life and culture, tracing gospel from its beginnings as a mode of worship to its expansion into commercialized culture during the 1940s and 1950s.
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Scope and Content
Contains research files and transcripts, 35mm slides, photographic prints, and audiocassettes used for Jerma A. Jackson's book, Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age (UNC Press, 2004). Interviews are with African American gospel singers as well as others involved in the church and music business. The materials also include paper transcripts of the interviews and materials related to the Church of God in Christ, the Pentecostal Christian denomination in the United States headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., that include biographical information on women singers.
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Jerma A. Jackson Collection, 1992-1997
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