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2. Black Gospel music - Wikipedia

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   Black gospel music, often called gospel music or gospel, is the traditional music of the Black diaspora in the United States.It is rooted in the conversion of enslaved Africans to Christianity, both during and after the trans-atlantic slave trade, starting with work songs sung in the fields and, later, with religious songs sung in various church settings, later classified as Negro Spirituals ...

3. TV Gospel Time - Wikipedia

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   TV Gospel Time was the first television broadcast dedicated to gospel music airing one year before a similar gospel theme broadcast Jubilee Showcase started to air also from Chicago, on ABC network in 1963. TV Gospel Time was also the first TV broadcast of music performed exclusively by black musicians. [2]

4. Traditional black gospel - Wikipedia

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   Traditional black gospel [1] is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding African American Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. It is a form of Christian music and a subgenre of black gospel music.

5. Voices of praise that shaped Black gospel music - AOL

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   Gospel music is what it is today thanks to the countless Black artists who hand-crafted the genre. Mahalia Jackson. Mahalia Jackson is one of the matriarchs of gospel music. Born in poverty in New ...

6. Willie Mae Ford Smith - Wikipedia

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   Labeled "one of the most important gospel singers of the century" by The New York Times, Smith is considered a pioneer in the same vein as Thomas A. Dorsey, the "Father of Gospel Music". [15] While Dorsey wrote 1,000 gospel songs and set standards for gospel choirs, Smith created the "openly emotional and spiritually exuberant performance style ...

7. Jackson Southernaires - Wikipedia

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   Eleven albums have charted on the Billboard magazine charts, only on the Gospel Albums chart. In late 2019, the world was hit with a pandemic known as Covid-19. By early 2020, all music tours came to a halt. This pandemic continued for over 2 years. By the time it was concluded, the lives of few past group members had settled elsewhere.

8. Shout (Black gospel music) - Wikipedia

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   The shout music tradition originated within the church music of the Black Church, parts of which derive from the ring shout tradition of enslaved people from West Africa.As these enslaved Africans, who were concentrated in the southeastern United States, incorporated West African shout traditions into their newfound Christianity, the Black Christian shout tradition emerged—albeit not in all ...

9. WOW Gospel 2000 - Wikipedia

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   WOW Gospel 2000 is a gospel music compilation album in the WOW series.Released February 8, 2000, it features thirty-two songs on a double disc set. The album hit number 93 on the Billboard 200 chart in 2000, and number one on the Top Gospel Albums chart, making it the first gospel album to peak on that respective chart.