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A spiritual is a type of religious folksong that is most closely associated with the enslavement of African people in the American South. The songs proliferated in the last few decades of the eighteenth century leading up to the abolishment of legalized slavery in the 1860s. The African American spiritual (also called the Negro Spiritual) constitutes one of the largest and most significant ...
The creation of spirituals can be attributed to the converting of slaves to Christianity during the Great Awakening period. The slaves began to exhibit the Christian beliefs through their music all while including their hardships as well and thus the negro spiritual was born.
Folk Song of the American Negro by John Wesley Work, 1915. Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death by Dr. Howard Thurman, 1969. The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times by Anthony Heilbut, 1971. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War by Dena Epstein, 1977. Just Mahalia, Baby by Laurraine Goreau, 1985.
Chicago/Turabian Format. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "The Book of American Negro Spirituals" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2024.
Apr 1, 2015 · A Brief History. Negro spirituals are songs created by the Africans who were captured and brought to the United States to be sold into slavery. This stolen race was deprived of their languages, families, and cultures; yet, their masters could not take away their music. Over the years, these slaves and their descendants adopted Christianity, the ...
As E. Franklin Frazier notes, “The Bible provided the Negro with the rich imagery which has characterized … the sacred folk songs” of African Americans. 2 Selected biblical stories and images, forming a distinct “slave canon” that drew heavily upon the Old Testament, provided a unique theological and hermeneutical foundation, whereby ...
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Jun 28, 2022 · Gospel music, Black gospel music is an offset of the Negro spiritual. One of the main differences between the two, is that we are not exactly aware of the composers of, “ Wade in the Water ” or “Joshua at the Battle of Jericho” or “ Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel “. However, there are known composers of famous gospel songs like ...
