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During his lifetime he was a leading Black composer, known for his use of African-American folk songs and spirituals as the basis for choral and piano compositions in the 19th century Romantic style of Classical music.
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 sub-Saharan African cultural heritage with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for ...
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Dett compiled two collections of spirituals, Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro as Sung at Hampton Institute (1927) and The Dett Collection of Negro Spirituals (1936). He based the Hampton collection on earlier editions of 1874, 1891, and 1909.
The African American spiritual (also called the Negro Spiritual) constitutes one of the largest and most significant forms of American folksong. Famous spirituals include " Swing low, sweet chariot ," composed by a Wallis Willis, and " Deep down in my heart ."
Mar 5, 2021 · Spirituals are meditations on the triumph of the metaphysical over the physical realities of slavery. They attempt to answer profound questions: What happens to an enslaved person when she dies?
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Published. 1901 New Jubilee Songs. Genre. Spiritual. Songwriter (s) Unknown. Composer (s) unknown. " Wade in the Water " ( Roud 5439) is an African American jubilee song, a spiritual —in reference to a genre of music "created and first sung by African Americans in slavery." [1]
The African American spiritual (also called the Negro Spiritual) constitutes one of the largest and most significant forms of American folksong. Playlist. Five recordings from Library of Congress collections. My good Lord done been here. Sung by Florida Hampton, recorded in Alabama by John and Ruby Lomax, 1939.