• 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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    Cakes da Killa Injury Reserve "Simon Phoenix" Ho99o9 Cyber Warfare "Negro Spiritual" Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ "Nauseous / Devilish" Vegyn Only Diamonds...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • "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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Still Believe" by the Call, plus a 40-second snippet of the American negro spiritual "Steal Away". Taff also records "Breathe Life into Me", which would...
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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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  • Metropolitan Opera. Her fields of expertise were European classical music and Negro spirituals. Lee was born in Meridian, Mississippi. Her father, James Clarence...
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    Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (category African-American spiritual songs)
    Arranger Hugo Frey used this version in his 1924 collection Famous Negro Spirituals published by Robbins Music. The Jubilee Singers sang a song with a...
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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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    quotes of spirituals and arrangements of spirituals such as Bandanna Sketches: Four Negro Spirituals, Camp Song: (Water Boy), Levee Dance, Forty Negro Spirituals...
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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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  • years she lived in Accra, Ghana. The book, deriving its title from a Negro spiritual, begins where Angelou's previous memoir, The Heart of a Woman, ends...
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    in Evangelical Christianity, where it became widespread, notably in Negro spirituals. An earlier example occurs in John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667): Betwixt...
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  • Let us break bread together (category African-American spiritual songs)
    varied but became known widely after publication in The Second Book of Negro Spirituals in 1926. "Breaking bread" is mentioned 21 times in the Christian Bible:...
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  • the melody of "Blowin' in the Wind" as Dylan's adaptation of the old Negro spiritual "No More Auction Block". According to Alan Lomax's The Folk Songs of...
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