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2 days ago · Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade.
6 days ago · Originally passed down orally, folk spirituals have been central in the lives of African Americans for more than three centuries, serving religious, cultural, social, political, and historical functions. Folk spirituals were spontaneously created and performed in a repetitive, improvised style.
3 days ago · Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1] : 17 [2] : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3]
6 days ago · The current Singers continue the tradition of singing the Negro spiritual around the world. This allows the ensemble to share this rich culture globally, while preserving this unique music.
May 2, 2024 · The song “Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho” originated from the African-American slave spirituals of the late 19th century. As slaves were forbidden from practicing their African religions, they sought comfort in Christianity and infused their traditional African rhythms into Christian hymns.
May 16, 2024 · The history of gospel music has its origins in the Negro Spirituals, sacred songs created by African slaves brought to the United States during the period of slavery. These songs were both an expression of Christian faith and a means of resisting oppression.
3 days ago · [It asserts a] . . . self-willed beginning [whose] . . . “success” depends fundamentally upon self-negation, a turning away from the “Old Negro” and the labyrinthine memory of black enslavement . . . toward the . . . “New Negro,” an irresistible, spontaneously generated black and sufficient self. . . .
