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What most African Americans would identify today as "gospel" began in the early 20th century. The gospel music that Thomas A. Dorsey, Sallie Martin, Willie Mae Ford Smith and other pioneers popularized had its roots in the blues as well as in the more freewheeling forms of religious devotion of "Sanctified" or "Holiness" churches—sometimes called "holy rollers" by other denominations — who ...
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 ...
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 ...
Boyer, Horace Clarence,How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel Elliott and Clark, 1995, ISBN 0-252-06877-7. Heilbut, Tony, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times Limelight Editions, 1997, ISBN 0-87910-034-6. Zolten, Jerry, Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music Oxford University Press, 2003.
This list includes artists that perform in traditional gospel music genres such as Southern gospel, traditional black gospel, urban contemporary gospel, gospel blues, Christian country music, Celtic gospel and British black gospel as well as artists in the general market who have recorded music in these genres.
Traditional gospel music is older forms of gospel music. Traditional black gospel, which originated among African-Americans in the early 20th century; Gospel blues, whose popularity peaked in the 1940s and 1950s; Southern gospel, also known as "white gospel" Bluegrass gospel, religious songs out of the bluegrass folk music traditions
Traditional Black gospel music is the most well–known form, often seen in Black churches, non–Black Pentecostal and evangelical churches, and in entertainment spaces across the country and world. It originates from the Southeastern United States ("the South"), where most Black Americans lived prior to the Great Migration .
Awarding the album four stars from CCM Magazine, Matt Conner states, "Cobbs' charisma and power continues to shine." [4] Bob Marovich, giving the release five stars at the Journal of Gospel Music, writes, "The melodic songs, the expert pacing, and the strong singing make this one of the best gospel albums of the year."