African American Spirituals are songs that familiar to the ear for many. The history of these folk songs tells many stories.

Negro spirituals were created by Africans during slavery and have been passed down from generation to generation. In Baton Rouge, local musicians old and young are working together to preserve this ...

With a mix of freedom songs, African American spirituals, gospel music, traditional African folk melodies and reggae, this was a celebration not only of the passengers’ role in helping to ...

Deviating from the traditional music often heard during the weekly televised Mass from Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral, in ...

Music played a key role in African American religious life. Hymns and spirituals, many written by black composers, accompanied preaching in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and other ...

Most of Hogan’s focused on African American spirituals and the traditions that they were based on. “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” is an African American spiritual that was first published in ...

A THREE time Grammy-award winning gospel choir will be in Mildura this month to perform a concert inspired by African ...

Preston Wilson, will be hosting a masterclass afterward at the museum to delve deeper into their historic group and the storytelling in African American spirituals. "I first heard them (Fisk ...