This Is My Song: A Collection of Gospel Music for the Family

by Vy Higgenson and Vy Higginsen

Book Overview

Illustrated in full color with black-and-white photographs. Gospel music has long been a major part of African American culture, and this gorgeous book captures its unique spirit in words, music,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517594927
• ISBN13: 9780517594926
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.1" x 13.8"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great music w/ beautiful pictures

Very soulful book. 30 songs that are often song in the black church such as "It is well, "Lay my burden down," "Amazing Grace," "Yes, Jesus loves me" "Old time Religion." Illustrations are wonderful. In order to play the songs, you must be more than a beginning musican.

Wonderful pictures and fantastic music!

This book has 30 of the best loved Gospel songs of our centruy - from Deep River and I Need Thee Every Hour to Blessed Assurance and Jesus Lifted Me. The arrangements are clever and interesting - great fun to sing. The music is not for beginners. Accompanying most songs are absolutely delightful pastel pictures of Afro-American/black people singing. The faces are filled with joy and praise, deep feeling. Each picture captures a moment of worship with honesty. The combination of pictures and music makes this book a keeper. I will use it in my pastoral charge to teach my (all white) congregations about joyful singing.