Some of what we think of as the best gospel songs actually began life outside of the church. “Sinnerman” was based on a traditional African-American spiritual, which started life as a Scottish ...

Gospel as a genre can be traced back to Negro spirituals, the religious folk songs that emerged from African people who were enslaved in the American South. Many of those compositions were rooted ...

“American record companies aren’t too hip ... Within each recorded gospel song, amid fuzzy scratches and pops, lies a story of the Black church and of hope. Most records contain what historian ...

perform their biannual African American Gospel music event at the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, April 17. The 3-hour performance, held as an impetus to spread the culture of African Americans ...

The UAB Gospel Choir is a music performance class open to students of all majors. It performs traditional and contemporary American Gospel Music tours throughout the United States and abroad, and its ...

“Several songs were actually written at the time ... who produced both the debut and the subsequent New American Gospel. “It was Randy’s idea,” laughs Adler. “He was a big fan, phoned ...