Ryan Coogler’s masterpiece mixes African spirits, the American church and the power of music into a terrifying brew.

During a 1956 live performance of the spiritual “This Train (Bound ... The writer Amiri Baraka once defined Black music as “American music expanded past the experience of the average American.” ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the American musical mainstream, creating popular new American music genres ...

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is one of the biggest stars in jazz, but his inventive and infectious jazz, gospel and spiritual-infused ... when he became the first Black person to become music director of ...

Let’s be real: Black music birthed every major American genre ... is the embodiment of that very spiritual conflict. Blues music was born from the Black church. That tension is our history.

Black musicians in jazz clubs often also worked ... After McCorvey started talking with like-minded people in 1994, the American Spiritual Ensemble went on the road in 1995 putting spirituals ...

As the conflict in the hit film ‘Sinners’ unfolds, it deftly interrogates the role of religion within the Black community.

It was a place where dramatically Black Americans have a tie to that we ... Jaleel Shaw: It's like church. It's a very spiritual music where everyone's really part of the experience.

"The majority of contemporary American music, the history of that is Black history," Bracewell ... a sense of community, a spiritual experience," Norfleet said. "We take this moment to empty ...