MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Music Of Africa, Black Church, The Soul Stirrers
16 Jul 2018
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The black church in america is a syncretic religion - purposeful blending of african music and spiritual traditions with figures and stories from the christian bible. Slave owners did not allow africans to keep their drums, so they made music with their voices and bodies. African traditions in the black christian church: music is central to worship, ecstatic trance states, call and response between preacher and congregation. Black sacred music a distinct and highly sacred music styles: spirituals, gospel influential musical tradition in america. Spirituals an oral tradition of christian- themed songs created by slaves in the united states. Told old testament stories while also describing the hardships. Originally unaccompanied monophonic (unison) songs, they are best known today in harmonized choral arrangements of slavery, often in (cid:498)double coded(cid:499) language. (cid:498)swing low sweet chariot(cid:499) (cid:498)by and by(cid:499) African american musical roots and rhythms, add sacred lyrics. Gospel: original christian songs written for performances in church services.
