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75 Best Foot-tapping, Hand-raising Gospel Songs

Rooted in the rich tradition of African-American spirituals. Gospel music has evolved over time. The genre's earliest beginnings are found in the music sung, and passed down, by enslaved people in ...
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Ev'ry time I feel the spirit : 101 best-loved psalms, gospel hymns, and spiritual songs of the African-American church / [compiled and with commentary by] Gwendolin Sims Warren

The Negro spirituals : plantation songs and jubilee songs, 1600-1870 -- The gospel songs : gospel hymns, historical gospel, and traditional songs, songs of Tindley, Dorsey, Campbell, and others, ...
Columbus Dispatch

Traditional gospel hymns find an audience outside of church

Debra James Tucker knows enough about gospel music to fill multiple hymnals, but no song can top “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” “I sing because I’m happy / I sing because I’m free,” the chorus, written ...
The Christian Century

‘Tukutendereza Yesu’

I'm never convinced when Protestants claim to be people of the Bible alone. They are people of the Bible and the hymnbook, and the two volumes complement each other splendidly. As you sing, so you ...
The Spectrum

Gospel choir gives new sound to Mormon hymns

SALT LAKE CITY - A mostly black gospel choir in Utah is bringing a vibrant new sound to familiar Mormon hymns and shining a light on the increasingly global component of a faith that has more than ...