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- Higher Education
This recording consists of songs predominately created, nurtured, and encouraged by Black Americans. "Negro" spirituals are musical derivations of Africanic arts coupled with the love, power, and...
Gospel and Spirituals
Audio
Grades
- Higher Education
This recording consists of songs predominately created, nurtured, and encouraged by Black Americans. "Negro" spirituals are musical derivations of Africanic arts coupled with the love, power, and...
Audio
Grades
- Higher Education
This recording consists of songs predominately created, nurtured, and encouraged by Black Americans. "Negro" spirituals are musical derivations of Africanic arts coupled with the love, power, and...
Photo
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- Higher Education
The Jarvis Brothers of Orangeburg County are the living continuation of the Jubilee style of a cappella gospel singing that was immensely popular before World War II. Organized and arranged by their...
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- Higher Education
NOTE: Transcripts are not available yet for the audio. The use of the shape note method of reading music was an important thread in American musical history. Introduced at the end of the eighteenth...
Audio
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- Higher Education
Episode
2
From one of the group's first recordings "Give God a Chance."
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- Higher Education
Episode
3
From the recording "God is Always Standing By."
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- Higher Education
The All Male Chorus of Blacksburg is recognized as a group with deep roots in African-American a cappella gospel traditions. One day in 1974, Howard Thompson visited Harold Gaffney and they discussed...
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Students will understand how enslaved Africans created music for their worship experience. Religious meetings in “praise houses” provided the spiritual outlet for enslaved Africans on the plantation...
Audio
Grades
- Higher Education
Episode
5
Traditional spiritual. Recorded at the 1998 Fall Folklife Festival, McKissick Museum.