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Spirituals and gospel
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre
Spirituals and gospel · Spirituals arose in the nineteenth century among enslaved African Americans in the southern United States; in the Black churches, gospel grew out of them in the 1920s and 1930s: polyphonic religious songs with call and response. From 1938, Sister Rosetta Tharpe recorded gospel songs with the rhythm and swing of jazz, and in the 1940s was already playing solos on an electric guitar. Through singers who learned to sing in church, gospel became one of the roots of soul.
Listening
Listening tip. Strange Things Happening Every Day is a gospel song, but if you pay no attention to the words, you hear a driving piano and a guitar solo as in rhythm and blues.
Strange Things Happening Every Day · Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 1945Apple Music ↗
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot · Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, 1909Apple Music ↗
Move On Up a Little Higher · Mahalia Jackson, 1948Apple Music ↗
In School of Rock
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See also
- Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
- Mahalia Jackson
- Work songs and field hollers
- European art music
- Purcell, Handel and the oratorio
- New Orleans jazz
- Rock 'n' roll
- Soul
- Hard bop
- Doo-wop
- Barbershop
- Isicathamiya and South African choirs
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