The earliest form of religious music to develop among African Americans in the United States is known as the spiritual. A music born of slavery, this genre symbolized the slave population’s unique expression of Christian religious values and ideals tempered by the social, cultural, and physical experience of prolonged involuntary servitude.
The birthing of the spiritual symbolized a spirit of freedom—the underlying conscious will of slaves to express themselves in ways that reflected who they were as a people living far from home in a distant land.
Call-response
Cultural memory
Great awakening
Invisible church
Double entendre
Polyrhythm
Concert spiritual
Heterophony
The history of Negro spirituals is deeply rooted in the experiences of African Americans in the United States, particularly during the period of slavery and
Gospel music birthed from Negro spirituals remains one of the most influential genres in the world offering hope and faith for many throughout the continued
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The Evolution of Negro Spirituals By Kyleigh Brown Origin of Spirituals During The Great Awakening, many slaves were influenced by Christianity and began developing their
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