October 3, 2022 • In this episode, Christen identifies the musical characteristics that make up Black Spirituals. See how the American Black community has preserved Spirituals, in spite of its ...
From the moment of capture, through the treacherous middle passage, after the final sale and throughout life in North America, the experience of enslaved Africans who first arrived at Jamestown, ...
A historical tune crackled through the speakers Friday morning as Matt Keasal explained to his students how their lives have been changed by songs written more than a century ago. "Swing low, sweet ...
WASHINGTON — Black History Month is a time to pause and remember the events and people significant to African-American history. Part of that legacy includes African-American spirituals. Spirituals ...
...many enslaved Africans adopted biblical figures not only as heroes, but as ancestors, to replace the African ancestors from whom they had been torn. -M. Roger Holland, II If you want some ...
Though he recognized their revolutionary undercurrent, W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), the brilliant, still influential Black sociologist, poignantly called American spirituals the “Sorrow Songs.” He also ...
Historian Bill Doggett reflects on the influence of Black women on American music, from the earliest recorded spirituals to today. The poignancy of the opening words of the Negro Spiritual belie a ...
Mat Callahan is a musician and insurgent historian whose latest project is, “Songs of Slavery and Emancipation.” The book and double-album were released on June 17 by Jalopy Records in New York and a ...
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Faithfully recreating the music of slave organizers, freedom fighters, and abolitionists, a recent compilation sheds light on the politics of collective liberation at the root of 19th-century American ...
WASHINGTON — Black History Month is a time to pause and remember the events and people significant to African-American history. Part of that legacy includes African-American spirituals. Spirituals ...