Gospel singing

IN this post, I am going to be speaking on Gospel singing. In the name, gospel music is in Christian music genre, and was established around the 17th century by African Americans.

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You will have noticed by listening to gospel music, that there is a lot of repetition in lyrics, melodies, harmonies, clapping and foot stomping. The reason behind this is the fact that before the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans didn't get an education so in that case they couldn't read an awful lot. Gospel music was then starting to take a toll, as it didn't require too much of reading old church hymns but instead just repeating words to give praise to God.


In 1874, Philip Bliss released the first gospel songbook known as Gospel Songs. A choice collection of hymns and tunes. This was then the gospel revival movement started to take place along with
 Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey who also started the Pentecostal movement. The lyrics didn't require too much lyrics involved which then lead to bringing a new genre of music to many different cities across America.


There are two different types of gospel music, Christian country, and British Black gospel music which was founded in the UK by Africans as a street culture way of singing Christian music.




sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_music#Roots_and_background