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Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with Black Americans, which merged sub-Saharan African cultural heritage with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first … See more
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians—one of the largest reference works on music and musicians, —itemized and described "spiritual" in their electronic resource, Grove Music Online—an important part of See more
In his 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, an essay on abolition and a memoire, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)—a great orator—described slave songs as telling a "tale which was then altogether beyond my feeble … See more
African-American spirituals have associations with plantation songs, slave songs, freedom songs, and songs of the Underground … See more
The Fisk Jubilee Singers continue to maintain their popularity in the 21st century with live performances in locations such as Grand Ole Opry House in 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2019 Tazewell Thompson presented an cappella musical entitled, Jubilee, … See more
The transatlantic slave trade, which took place over 400 years, was the largest forced migration in recorded human history—most were … See more
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J.H. Kwabena Nketia (1921–2019) described by the New York Times in 2019, as a "pre-eminent … See moreFisk Jubilee Singers popularized spirituals
The original Fisk Jubilee Singers, a touring a cappella male and female choir of nine students of the … See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license - Some results have been removed