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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 ...
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 ...
Black History Month began as merely a week back in 1926 thanks to the efforts of one man: Carter G. Woodson. A scholar and teacher, Woodson was the second Black American to receive a Ph.D. from ...
Interesting Black History Facts Society. 1. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, known as the "Father of Black History," started the first Negro History Week in 1926 to ensure students would learn Black history ...
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 ...
Gates’ documentary “Gospel” fills a widening chasm between Black Americans and the Black church by capturing firsthand accounts of how the magical combination of message and music has ...
The Music of Black Americans: A History (1997) Spencer, Jon Michael. Black hymnody: a hymnological history of the African-American church (1992) Wills, David W. and Richard Newman, eds. Black Apostles at Home and Abroad: Afro-Americans and the Christian Mission from the Revolution to Reconstruction (1982) Woodson, Carter G. (2009) [1928].
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.