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 ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT GOSPEL SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Gospel music has its origins in the hymns, spirituals and sacred songs found in Afro-American culture in the 18th and 19th Century. Gospel songs were originally sung by African slaves. Lyrics ...

Byron Stripling will be guest conductor for “Gershwin, Berlin & Friends” which begins at 7:30 p.m. at Springfield Symphony ...

“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 ...