In this article, I document the introduction and development of gospel music within the African-American Christian community of Omaha, Nebraska. The 116 predominantly black congregations in Omaha represent twenty-five percent of the churches in a city where African-Americans comprise thirteen percent of the overall population.1 Within these institutions the gospel music genre has been and continues to be a dynamic reflection of African-American spiritual values and aesthetic sensibilities. By focusing the research on perceptions and descriptions provided by the music\u27s practitioners, an examination of this genre at the local level will shed insight into the development and dissemination of gospel music on the broader national scale. Foll...
The spiritual is one of the most significant windows into the religious experiences of Black America...
From the beginning of the Christian Church, singing and preaching have served as major tools of comm...
The purpose of this multiple case study was to gather musical and nonmusical perspectives from three...
Can a gospel choir made up of more White singers than Black create authentic gospel music? This proj...
Gospel music affects every aspect of African American culture, and the similarities between the Afri...
The purpose of this work is to identify features of southern black gospel music, and to highlight wh...
This study explores the production, performance, and evaluation of community-based gospel performanc...
This essay presents partial findings from a study of historically black collegiate gospel choirs (HB...
This article examines the history African-American gospel music between the 1940s and 1960s in the S...
BMR Bulletin is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to ...
For Africa n American studen ts, matriculation at a p redominantly White institution ofhigher educat...
The racial oppression of black people in many ways has fueled and shaped black musical forms in Amer...
Gospel music exists within a rich cultural and historical space—at one level, it is part of an impor...
This essay explores the praying grounds and contested terrains of African American sacred music in t...
During the 1920s and 1930s, these lively actions and dynamic phrases would have never been attribute...
The spiritual is one of the most significant windows into the religious experiences of Black America...
From the beginning of the Christian Church, singing and preaching have served as major tools of comm...
The purpose of this multiple case study was to gather musical and nonmusical perspectives from three...
Can a gospel choir made up of more White singers than Black create authentic gospel music? This proj...
Gospel music affects every aspect of African American culture, and the similarities between the Afri...
The purpose of this work is to identify features of southern black gospel music, and to highlight wh...
This study explores the production, performance, and evaluation of community-based gospel performanc...
This essay presents partial findings from a study of historically black collegiate gospel choirs (HB...
This article examines the history African-American gospel music between the 1940s and 1960s in the S...
BMR Bulletin is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to ...
For Africa n American studen ts, matriculation at a p redominantly White institution ofhigher educat...
The racial oppression of black people in many ways has fueled and shaped black musical forms in Amer...
Gospel music exists within a rich cultural and historical space—at one level, it is part of an impor...
This essay explores the praying grounds and contested terrains of African American sacred music in t...
During the 1920s and 1930s, these lively actions and dynamic phrases would have never been attribute...
The spiritual is one of the most significant windows into the religious experiences of Black America...
From the beginning of the Christian Church, singing and preaching have served as major tools of comm...
The purpose of this multiple case study was to gather musical and nonmusical perspectives from three...