From Thomas A. Dorsey to Andraé Crouch and Kirk Franklin, the worship genre has always integrated new sounds. When I was a teenager and heard “It Ain’t No New Thing” by Andraé Crouch and The Disciples ...

Turn on almost any major pop or R&B record from the last seventy years and you'll likely hear it without realizing: the ornamental vocal runs, the call-and-response phrasing, the way a singer seems to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony ...

1. Introduction: "Miss Jackson and Her Art (Gospel Singing)"; 2. Family Affairs, Part I: The Clarks of Louisiana; 3. Family Affairs, Part II: Black Baptists and Chicago Gospel; 4. Gospel Singing as ...

Four years ago, Debora Wondercheck was trying to process scenes of civil unrest in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor taking place nationally and in Orange County, when she ...

The discussion around Maverick City Music highlights how commercial success and congregational value are two different things. Since its first album in 2019, Maverick City Music has been both praised ...

For the first time in over six decades, the Saints are bringing a new gospel residency to Sin City ...

nmafmai copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In September 1963, the Angelic Choir of the First Baptist Church of Nutley, New Jersey, teamed up with rising gospel star James ...

Two guest choirs will make their first appearance at the 31st African American Gospel Music Festival on Sunday, Nov. 6, at SUNY Cortland. The festival begins at 4 p.m. in Old Main Brown Auditorium.

“The Black folk song, the rhythmic cry of the slave, stands today not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side the seas.” - W. E. B.