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What is Black gospel music? According to The Pluralism Project from Harvard University,
“Gospel music developed among Black Christians in the United States. Informed by the “ring-shouts” of enslaved people, the gospel genre moved into urban centers during the 20th century and became increasingly popular in both religious and secular contexts.”
The Pluralism Project goes on to describe the evolution of gospel music.
The evolution of gospel music is deeply rooted in the musical forms of generations of enslaved Africans. In the tradition that came to be called the “ring shout,” they combined song and dance in a rhythmic pulse that later came into the life of the Holiness and Pentecostal churches of the late 19th century, with shouting, clapping, and ring dancing after the sermon. The “call and response” pattern of communal singing became the distinctive antiphony between a song leader and the congregation, surging through African American spirituals and becoming the driving rhythm of gospel music.
Bernice Johnson Reagon, who edited the Smithsonian volume, We’ll Understand It Better, By and By, writes, “Into new urban communities, we brought dreams of change; we also brought as much of the past as we could carry—traditions that provided solid ground for uprooted families in strange, often cold, environments. The sound of Black America expanded to embrace this reality. The new dimensions of this expansion are most evident in the development of the urban church music that became known as gospel.
Gospel music can be life changing; the talent, amazing voices, great vocal expressions, the syncopated arrangements, the lyrics, and the choral delivery. It gives us a small glimpse of just how beautiful heaven is
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