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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 ...
James Edward Cleveland (December 5, 1931 – February 9, 1991) was an American gospel singer, musician, and composer. Known as the "King of Gospel," Cleveland was a driving force behind the creation of the modern gospel sound by incorporating traditional black gospel, soul, pop, and jazz in arrangements for mass choirs.
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 ...
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In 2015, a video showed Black protestors at a rally in Cleveland sin ging the song during a street protest. In 2016, protesters chanted the song after it was announced that Trump would be a no ...
Although credited to Williams, "The Funeral" had existed for years as a poem written by Will Carleton and recounts a black child's funeral. T. Texas Tyler , who had scored a big hit with the recitation " Deck of Cards " in 1948, had recorded a version of the song titled "Colored Child's Funeral" around the same time as Williams recorded it, as ...
Church School Hymnal for Children, Grades 3 to 6 (1964) [290] Young Children Sing, Church School Hymnal for Ages 3–7 (1967) [291] Lutheran Book of Worship, Augsburg Publishing House (1978) [292] Lutheran Church of Australia. All Together series of spiritual song books; Lutheran Hymnal with Supplement (1987) Together in Song: Australian Hymn ...
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