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Sacred music, which includes spirituals and gospel music, illustrates the central role that music plays in African American spiritual and religious life. The earliest form of black musical expression in America, spirituals were based on Christian psalms and hymns and were merged with African music styles and secular American music forms.
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A spiritual is a type of religious folksong that is most closely associated with the enslavement of African people in the American South. The songs proliferated in the last few decades of the eighteenth century leading up to the abolishment of legalized slavery in the 1860s.
Spirituals are folk-gospel songs that originated in African-American slave communities in the 19th century. Learn about the themes, structures, and performers of spirituals, and listen to some of the best songs in this genre.
Dec 11, 2017 · "Spirituals" are the moving songs that were created by African-American slaves to both lament the horrors of life as a slave and speak to personal and religious values that offer hope.
Spirituals encompass the “sing songs,” work songs, and plantation songs that evolved into the blues and gospel songs in church. In the nineteenth century, the word “spirituals” referred to all these subcategories of folk songs.
