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  2. Black Gospel music - Wikipedia

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    Black gospel music, often called gospel music or gospel, is the traditional music of the Black diaspora in the United States.It is rooted in the conversion of enslaved Africans to Christianity, both during and after the trans-atlantic slave trade, starting with work songs sung in the fields and, later, with religious songs sung in various church settings, later classified as Negro Spirituals ...

  3. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Wikipedia

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    See media help. " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " is an African-American spiritual song and one of the best-known Christian hymns. Originating in early African-American musical traditions, the song was probably composed in the late 1860s by Wallace Willis, a Choctaw freedman. Performances by the Hampton Singers and the Fisk Jubilee Singers brought ...

  4. We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder - Wikipedia

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    Written. circa 1750 CE to 1825 CE. Genre. Spiritual. We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder (also known as Jacob's Ladder) is an African American slave spiritual based in part on the Biblical story of Jacob's Ladder. It was developed some time before 1825, and became one of the first slave spirituals to be widely sung by white Christians.

  5. Field holler - Wikipedia

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    Field hollers are also known as corn-field hollers, water calls, and whoops. An early description is from 1853 and the first recordings are from the 1930s. The holler is closely related to the call and response of work songs and arhoolies. The Afro-American music form ultimately influenced strands of African American music, such as the blues ...

  6. Every Time I Feel the Spirit - Wikipedia

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    Written. before 1861. Genre. Spiritual. Songwriter (s) Unknown. "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (aka "Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit") is an African-American spiritual dating to before the US Civil War. The song has been frequently recorded by contemporary artists and gospel music groups. [1][2]

  7. Spirituals - Wikipedia

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    Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, [1] Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, [2] [3] [4] which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade [5] and for centuries afterwards, through ...

  8. Category:African-American spiritual songs - Wikipedia

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    W. Wade in the Water. We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder. We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil's Tongue. The Welcome Table. Were You There. When the Saints Go Marching In. Categories: African-American music.

  9. Yoruba religion - Wikipedia

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    A symbol of the Yoruba religion (Isese) with labels Yoruba divination board Opon Ifá. According to Kola Abimbola, the Yorubas have evolved a robust cosmology. [1] Nigerian Professor for Traditional African religions, Jacob K. Olupona, summarizes that central for the Yoruba religion, and which all beings possess, is known as "Ase", which is "the empowered word that must come to pass," the ...