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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theme. Gospel composers included writers like Ira D. Sankey and Mason Lowry, and Charles B. Tindell. Hymns, Protestant gospel songs, and spirituals make...
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Gospel music is a traditional genre of Christian music and a cornerstone of Christian media. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition...
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church settings, later classified as Negro Spirituals (which shaped much of traditional Black gospel). Black Gospel music has been traditionally concerned...
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Chilton, Martin (October 29, 2023). "The 56 Best Gospel Songs Of All Time: Music's Most Moving Spirituals". UDiscoverMusic. Retrieved January 23, 2024. Sayej...
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Jubilee Singers Vol. 3 (1924-1940) (1997) Fisk Jubilee Singers Vol. 2 (1915-1920) (1997) Fisk Jubilee Singers Vol. 1 (1909-1911) (1997) Spirituals (1958)...
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Southern Gospel Music Matters." Journal of Religion and American Culture. 18.1 (2008) pp. 27–58. Jackson, George Pullen (1965). White spirituals in the...
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The Angelic Gospel Singers were an American gospel group from Philadelphia founded and led by Margaret Wells Allison. The group continued through Allison's...
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The Drinkard Singers were an American gospel singing group, most successful in the late 1950s, renowned for being the first gospel group to perform at...
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Mavis Staples (category 20th-century African-American women singers)
American rhythm and blues and gospel singer and civil rights activist. She rose to fame as a member of her family's band The Staple Singers, of which she...
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"The Gospel Train" "The Gospel Train" published by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1872 and performed by the United States Navy Band's Sea Chanters ensemble...
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American gospel, Black gospel, White gospel and Negro Spirituals that are arranged by Collins Nyandeje . The repertoire also includes Latin Gospel. This...
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Spirituals To Swing', would depict the common themes that existed in Black music from its origins in Africa, through gospel and blues, dixieland and eventually...
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Ricky Sings Spirituals is an EP by American singer Ricky Nelson. It was released in February 1960 and contains four gospel songs. Jimmie Haskell arranged...
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Wade in the Water (category African-American spiritual songs)
and Theory Department, published the first edition of this book, Wade in the water: the wisdom of the spirituals. Jones established "The Spirituals Project"...
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Jubilee quartet (category Gospel music groups)
from the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group of singers organized by George L. White at Fisk University in 1871 to sing Negro spirituals. The members of the original...
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Spirituals Are, What Spirituals Mean.” People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music, 2015, pp. 70–93. “What Spirituals Are, What Spirituals Mean...
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Lee Williams and The Spiritual QC's was an American quartet gospel group originating from Tupelo, Mississippi, which has been in existence since 1968...
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe (category American gospel singers)
October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. She gained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by...
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He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (category Gospel songs)
American gospel singers and British skiffle and pop musicians. The song made the popular song charts in a 1957 recording by English singer Laurie London...
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Down in the River to Pray (category Gospel songs)
p. 466. ISBN 9780313357978. "Sweet Chariot: The Story of the Spirituals". SpiritualsProject. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 28...
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Go Down Moses (category Gospel songs)
Sweet Chariot: The Story of the Spirituals, particularly their section on "Freedom" (Web site maintained by The Spirituals Project at the University of Denver)...
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Chicago as an adolescent and joined Chicago's first gospel group, the Johnson Singers. By demand, she began to sing solo at funerals and political rallies....
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Thomas A. Dorsey (category American gospel singers)
and common. In 1932, he co-founded the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, an organization dedicated to training musicians and singers...
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Sings Spirituals is the fifth studio album by B. B. King, released in 1960. He is backed by organ, piano, drums and bass, and accompanied vocally by two...
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perform in traditional gospel music genres such as Southern gospel, traditional black gospel, urban contemporary gospel, gospel blues, Christian country...
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The Selah Jubilee Singers were an American gospel vocal quartet, who appeared in public as a gospel group but who also had a successful recording career...
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Donnie McClurkin (category American gospel singers)
American gospel singer and minister. He has won three Grammy Awards, ten Stellar Awards, two BET Awards, two Soul Train Awards, one Dove Award and one NAACP...
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the spirituals in groups as they worked the plantation fields. African-American spirituals (Negro Spirituals) were created in invisible churches and regular...
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Mahalia Jackson (category American gospel singers)
and joined the Johnson Singers, one of the earliest gospel groups. Jackson was heavily influenced by musician-composer Thomas Dorsey and blues singer...
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