A University of Denver community choir that shares songs first sung by enslaved African Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries is bringing a free concert to Loveland Saturday afternoon. The ...

"Spirituals" are the moving songs that were created by African-American slaves to both lament the horrors of life as a slave and speak to personal and religious values that offer hope. When slavery ...

An African American musical group in Michigan that's been singing spirituals since the Civil Rights era is about to give its final concert. A choir in Michigan's been keeping the tradition of African ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PEORIA – The Peoria Historical Society is inviting residents to explore music's critical role in helping freedom seekers escape ...

Listen to Bobby McFerrin — onstage, warming up with his band — and it's like you're listening to an entire orchestra bubbling up through one man's body. He becomes a flute, a violin, a muted trumpet, ...

(RNS) — A century and a half ago, nine young men and women embarked on a trip from Fisk University, establishing a tradition of singing spirituals that both funded their Nashville, Tennessee, school ...

Morehouse Glee Club: “Lazarus rise up, the Lord is calling you. Oh, come forth, Larazus, the Lord is calling you.” BOB FAW, correspondent: The voices of the Morehouse College Glee Club blend perfectly ...

Introduction. The folk spiritual. Part I. The rise of a jubilee industry -- The jubilee singers of Fisk university -- The Fisk concert spiritual -- Innovators, imitators, and a jubilee industry Part ...

Whether sung liturgically, privately, or performed in concert, the Spirituals are a truly unique American music genre, steeped and founded in the Black Church experience with longevity and relevance ...