It also houses important artifacts like recorded sermons, concert announcements and sheet music, to preserve the history of Black gospel culture. Now, thanks to a new grant, the archive will ...

His is the last black gospel music store still going in Illinois ... His firm has published and now sells sheet music, records, hymnals and music books. As a composer, Mr. Morris wrote more ...

The Black gospel music courses established by Karen ... and the need to memorize the music and lyrics rather than read sheet music. The latter, says Burke, is a skill that — once learned ...

It will rise from the site of the historic Pilgrim Baptist Church, where the “father of gospel music,” Thomas Andrew Dorsey, laid the foundation for a robust tradition of black sacred singing.

Margaret Bonds arranged over fifty African-American spirituals for various instruments, one of which is the five-minute piano work Troubled Water, based on the spiritual Wade in the ... Specific ...

(Submitted by Karen Burke) There's a power and intensity to Black gospel music that has a rich tradition in Canada. Euphoric, rhythmic and spiritual, its roots can be traced all the way back to ...