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Southern gospel music is a genre of Christian music. Its name comes from its origins in the southeastern United States. Its lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.
Following World War II, gospel music moved into major auditoriums, and gospel music concerts became quite elaborate. Gospel blues is a blues-based form of gospel music (a combination of blues guitar and evangelistic lyrics). Southern gospel used all male, tenor-lead-baritone-bass quartet make-up.
Feb 19, 2024 · Most people think of gospel music as a southern phenomenon, but many music historians believe that the seeds actually sprouted in New England in 1734 when New England preacher Jonathan Edwards launched a religious revival known as the Great Awakening.
The earliest issues of Singing News did not use the term to mean anything other than gospel music in the South, that is, “southern” gospel. However, later issues placed greater significance on the term as an identifying mark; in reality, the fate of the term was sealed with the organization of the Southern Gospel Music Guild in 1986.
- James R. Goff
- 1998
Contemporary southern gospel music easily encompasses groups from the Martins, a brother and two sisters who sound like a cross between Manhattan Transfer and Take Six from the south, or the Isaacs Family, which calls itself a bluegrass group but sings a kind of countrified pop with folk-music instrumentation, to the maletrio Greater Vision, a ...
Dec 13, 2016 · The “Battle Hymn” tune was adapted from “Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us / On Canaan’s Happy Shore,” a Southern camp-meeting spiritual first published in an 1807 Virginia hymnbook by Methodist circuit-rider Stith Mead. “Grace Reviving in the Soul” soon became known as the “Say Brothers” or “O Brothers” hymn.
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May 14, 2003 · When bluegrass music emerged as a recognized genre in the late 1940s, the southern gospel style of singing was among the country music elements from which bluegrass borrowed.
