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23 hours ago · Colin Lett, director of vocal studies at Suitland High School in Prince George’s County, Maryland, says the demise of Black sacred music creates a missing link in a previously unbroken cultural chain. “It’s more than just words to a particular hymn,” he says. “It’s the power and the ethos of a people that get woven into the song ...
23 hours ago · Why Black Gospel Music Is on the Decline in African American Churches. Overview: A Black church congregation singing hymns like, “Father, I Stretch My Hands To Thee” was once a regular feature of worship. But the rise of megachurches, contemporary Gospel and modernized worship could mean singing hymns could soon disappear.
May 5, 2024 · Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments explores the distinctly African-American sound of the "Golden Age of Gospel" (1945-1975).
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May 13, 2024 · The OHAM gospel collection. OHAM’s gospel collection is the result of a collaboration with Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music and the Department of Music, as part of the Interdisciplinary Program in Music and the Black Church, which was launched by Braxton Shelley in 2021.
5 days ago · A musical culture of African-American origin, gospel music has its roots in centuries of slavery. In the 17th century, the black slave trade began. Slaves arrived from Africa with their own culture, traditions and beliefs. The history of gospel music has its origins in the Negro Spirituals, sacred songs created by African slaves brought to the ...
4 days ago · Bob Darden has long lamented that black gospel music has been denied its rightful respect as a pillar of American music and civil rights history. Now, the music the Baylor University...
4 days ago · Protest and Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion by Jon M. Spencer Here is a skillful tracing of two tracks in the evolution of musical genres that have evolved from black religion. Songs of protest developed from the spiritual through social-gospel hymnody to culminate in songs of the civil-rights movement and the blues.
