Nothing But Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Robert Darden

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"Nothing but Love in God's Water, volume 1, fills a significant niche in the already-voluminous library of the civil rights movement. While previous Pulitzer Prize-winning books have definitively covered the movement's leaders, politics, strategies, philosophy, and impact, the literature related to the influence--actually, the importance--of the music to the movement has barely been addressed in meaningful, systematic fashion. Nothing but Love in God's Water does that and more."

--James Abbington Journal of American History

"African-American music and its revolutionary potential, whether in the form of slave spirituals or the protest songs of the Civil Rights Movement, is relatively well-trodden ground amongst scholars. Where Robert Darden diverts from, and adds to this historiography, is in highlighting the reach and impact of black musical forms within sections of white American society. . . . Darden presents a compelling study of the impact of African-American music, making excellent use of both the rich historiography, and the various black musical genres."

--Thomas Strange Journal of Ecclesiastical History

The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression. From the spirituals of southern fields and the ringing chords of black gospel to the protest songs that changed the landscape of labor and the cadences sung before dogs and water cannons in Birmingham, sacred song has stood centre stage in the African American drama. Myriad interviews, one-of-a-kind sources, and rare or lost recordings are used to examine this enormously persuasive facet of the movement. Nothing but Love in God’s Water explains the historical significance of song and helps us understand how music enabled the civil rights movement to challenge the most powerful nation on the planet.