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Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, [1] Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, [2] [3] [4] which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade [5] and for centuries afterwards, through ...
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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. The collectors of the songs were Northern abolitionists William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charles Pickard Ware. [3]
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 ...
From the days of slavery, spirituals and hymns have provided a means of survival, offering hope, faith, and a shared sense of purpose. ... The song “Joy” was an original by then-fresh gospel ...
John Wesley Work Jr. (1871–1925)—also known as John Work II—spent three decades at the historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, Fisk University, collecting and promulgating the "jubilee songcraft" of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers—an African-American a cappella Fisk University student chorus (1871–1878), [8] known for introducing a wider audience to spirituals.
The Library of Congress has recordings of Negro Spirituals; 1. Song - Go down Moses. 2. Song - Deep river. 3. Song - Golden slippers. 4. Song - Steal away. The Library of Congress has recordings of African Americans singing Black Gospel; 1. Song - Oh Jonah. 2. Song - We Are Americans, Praise the Lord. 3. Song - Lead Me to That Rock. 4. Song ...
"Somebody's Knocking at Your Door", sometimes given as "Somebody's Knocking" and "Somebody's Knockin ' at Yo' Door", is a spiritual.The song's music and text has no known author, [1] but originated among enslaved African-Americans on Plantation complexes in the Southern United States sometime in the early 19th century.