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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 ...
What most African Americans would identify today as "gospel" began in the early 20th century. The gospel music that Thomas A. Dorsey, Sallie Martin, Willie Mae Ford Smith and other pioneers popularized had its roots in the blues as well as in the more freewheeling forms of religious devotion of "Sanctified" or "Holiness" churches—sometimes called "holy rollers" by other denominations — who ...
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This Far By Faith: an African American resource for worship (1999) [268] Lutheran Service Book, Concordia Publishing House (2006) [316] [317] Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ. ReClaim Hymnal, Sola Publishing (2006) North American Lutheran Church. ReClaim Hymnal, Sola Publishing (2006) Protes'tant Conference. A New Song, John Springer
The Our Mother of Africa Chapel is a shrine housed in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. It was built in the 1990s after a fundraising appeal sponsored by the National Black Catholic Congress , and was dedicated in 1997.
The song was first published in William Eleazar Barton's 1899 Old Plantation Hymns [1] but was described in writings prior to this publication. [2] [3] [4] In 1940, it was included in the Episcopal Church hymnal, making it the first spiritual to be included in any major American hymnal.
A newspaper article about a 1949 concert says that Settle adopted the phrase from the lyrics of a song sung by his mother. [59] Another theory suggests that Settle thought the phrase "had a nice ring to it" when CBS used it for the two prime-time programs. [58] Whatever its origin, the name served Settle and the choir for the next 30 years. [60]
Alvin Ailey made "Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham" [4] the music for the triumphant finale of his internationally known choreography Revelations, which was born out of the choreographer's "blood memories" of his childhood in rural Texas and attending the Baptist Church with his mother. [5]