Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll
Tonya Bolden
This picture-book biography introduces musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe. As a child in Arkansas, she played guitar and sang gospel in church. After her family moved to Chicago, she sang wherever her preacher mother shared the gospel. As an adult, Rosetta expanded her music by drawing on gospel, boogie-woogie, jazz, swing, and blues, then made records, appeared on radio and television, and toured in the United States and abroad.
This book appears on 3 reading lists across 2 editions from 3 organizations.
