Gospel

When many African American communities migrated from rural to urban existence all through the first half of the twentieth century, they introduced their worship subculture with them. Echoing the approaches of the single-room church buildings of the agrarian South, the storefront church buildings of the northern cities grew to become the key putting for the improvement of Gospel.
A key parent in the development of Gospel used to be Thomas A. Dorsey (1899 -1993). Referred to nowadays as the father of Gospel Music, Dorsey pioneered the form in Chicago. Before devoting his career to the improvement of Gospel, Dorsey, the son of a Georgia Baptist preacher, was a prolific blues and jazz composer and pianist. The vigorous rhythms and primal growls of secular song heavily influenced Dorsey’s sacred composing style.
From its beginnings, Gospel music challenged the present church establishment. Black religious leaders originally rejected Dorsey’s strategy because of its associations with the broadly frowned-upon secular music patterns of the technology such as ragtime, blues, and jazz.