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Pages in category "African-American spiritual songs" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Many popular sources claim that spirituals and other songs, such as "Steal Away" or "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd", contained coded information and helped individuals navigate the railroad, but these sources offer little traditional archival evidence to support their claims. Some scholars who have examined these claims tend to believe that while ...
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 ...
Paul Robeson excelled at sports, stage, and screen. (He practiced law awhile too.) A preacher’s son, he also achieved fame as a performer of the slave songs known as “Negro spirituals.”
This generated two distinctive African American slave musical forms, the spiritual (sung music usually telling a story) and the field holler (sung or chanted music usually involving repetition of the leader's line). [1] We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder is a spiritual. [1] As a folk song originating in a repressed culture, the song's origins are lost.