• Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated...
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  • offensive than Negro. The term Negro is still used in some historical contexts, such as the songs known as Negro spirituals, the Negro leagues of baseball...
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  • "Shine", and Flying Lotus was joined by bass guitarist Thundercat on "Negro Spiritual". Some of the album's material was made several years prior to recording;...
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    with his brother James: The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1925) and The Second Book of Negro Spirituals (1926). In addition, Johnson edited Shoutsongs...
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  • song "Mothership Connection (Star Child)", which itself quotes the Negro spiritual "Swing Down Sweet Chariot". "Let Me Ride" also samples James Brown's...
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  • "All God's Chillun Got Wings" is a Negro spiritual song. "Chillun" is an old-fashioned dialect word for "children". (Robeson sings it as "children" in...
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  • choral festivals with public high-school choirs, introducing them to Negro spiritual music, and sometimes led several hundred students in community performances...
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  • Down by the Riverside (category African-American spiritual songs)
    1926, Seventy Negro Spirituals, edited for low voice. Oliver Ditson Company, NY, sheet music format, pp. 60–62. Noted as Negro Spiritual. Deas, E. C. 1928:...
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  • which has created a new dynamic and allowed the birth of the New Negro. The Negro spirituals revealed themselves; suppressed for generations under the stereotypes...
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    Clemmons decided to create one: The Harlem Spiritual Ensemble was dedicated to preserving the American Negro spiritual. From 1997 until his retirement in 2013...
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  • on the Religious Insight of Certain of the Negro Spirituals (1945) [also published as The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death (same year)] Meditation...
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  • Go Down Moses (category African-American spiritual songs)
    playing this file? See media help. "Go Down Moses" is an African American spiritual that describes the Hebrew Exodus, specifically drawing from the Book of...
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  • professional choral spiritual and revitalized the Negro spiritual tradition. "Abide with Me" "Ain't That Good News" "Amen" "Any How" "A Spiritual Reflection"...
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  • expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill about miscegenation inspired by the old Negro spiritual. He began developing ideas for the play in 1922, emphasising its authenticity...
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    Tillman that the song had incalculable influence on the confluence of black spiritual and white gospel song traditions in forming the genre now known as southern...
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  • Sandburg's The American Songbag in 1927. Sandburg reports that the Negro spiritual "When the Chariot Comes", which was sung to the same melody, was adapted...
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  • album A Taste of Heaven (1994). Moses Hogan arranger and conductor on Negro Spirituals (1996) (with Derek Lee Ragin) and on I Believe This Is Jesus (2001)...
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    the University of Southern California commissioned Lamar's Funeral Doom Spiritual, which premiered in 2016 as both a performance and multimedia installation...
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  • This was number 35 in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's collection of Negro Spirituals that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly of June 1867, with a comment...
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  • The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture is a 2014 book by Vincent Woodard. The book explores the homoeroticism...
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  • Cross", "Mumblin' Word", "Crucifixion", and "Easter") is an American Negro Spiritual folk song. The song narrates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, detailing...
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  • written Way Over in Beulah Lan': Understanding and Performing the Negro Spiritual, and numerous journal articles. Thomas grew up in Wichita, Kansas with...
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  • troopers. Brookington speculated, therefore, the song was originally a negro spiritual. Version sung by The Chicago based folk duo of Jacquie Manning and...
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    "I sang our Negro songs for him very often, and before he wrote his own themes, he filled himself with the spirit of the old Spirituals." Dvořák said:...
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  • On, Pt. 1" Negro spiritual 1:06 2. "I'm Going All the Way" Ann Bennett-Nesby Jimmy Wright 4:52 3. "Ah Been Buked, Pt. 1" Negro spiritual 0:41 4. "I Believe"...
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    Jubilee Singers are credited with the early popularization of the Negro spiritual tradition among white and northern audiences in the late 19th century;...
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  • religious songs sung in various church settings, later classified as Negro Spirituals (which shaped much of traditional Black gospel). Black Gospel music...
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  • and his views on nationalism in music. The entire work mirrors the Negro Spiritual.  The symphony was a huge success and it garnered a great deal of attention...
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  • www.discogs.com. "Golden Gate Quartet, Paul Robeson, Buck Clayton - Negro Spirituals And Blues". 18 November 1953 – via www.discogs.com. "Paul Robeson -...
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    single in the UK, based on "This May Be the Last Time", a traditional Negro spiritual song recorded by the Staple Singers in 1955. Jagger and Richards also...
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