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Spirituals encompass the "sing songs", work songs, and plantation songs that evolved into the blues and gospel songs in church. [6] In the nineteenth century, the word "spirituals" referred to all these subcategories of folk songs.
Slave Songs of the United States was a collection of African American music consisting of 136 songs. Published in 1867, it was the first, and most influential, [1] [2] collection of spirituals to be published.
Purple (stylized on the cover art in its Chinese character 紫) is the second studio album by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released on June 7, 1994, by Atlantic Records. The album, building on the foundation laid by the band's debut album Core (1992), was a major commercial success, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 252,000 copies sold in its first week. [4] It ...
W. Wade in the Water. We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder. We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil's Tongue. The Welcome Table. Were You There. When the Saints Go Marching In. Categories: African-American music.
Spiritual. Songwriter (s) Unknown. Composer (s) unknown. " Wade in the Water " ( Roud 5439) is an African American jubilee song, a spiritual —in reference to a genre of music "created and first sung by African Americans in slavery." [1] The lyrics to "Wade in the Water" were first co-published in 1901 in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk ...
" Wild Mountain Thyme " (also known as " Purple Heather " and " Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go? ") is a Scottish/Irish folk song. The lyrics and melody are a variant of the song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill (1774–1810) and Scottish composer Robert Archibald Smith (1780–1829), but were adapted by Belfast musician Francis McPeake (1885–1971) into "Wild Mountain ...
Songs of the Underground Railroad were spiritual and work songs used during the early-to-mid 19th century in the United States to encourage and convey coded information to escaping slaves as they moved along the various Underground Railroad routes. As it was illegal in most slave states to teach slaves to read or write, songs were used to communicate messages and directions about when, where ...
The song, a duet with her husband, country singer Blake Shelton, dropped on February 9.