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Spiritual (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spirituals (or Negro spirituals ) are religious songs which were created by enslaved African people in America. The term spiritual is derived from spiritual song. The King James Bible's transla...
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Stowe's own religious affiliation, as the daughter, sister and wife of ministers, was with the Congregational Church, but for the hymns and spirituals in the novel she drew mainly from the Methodist and camp-meeting forms of Christianity she identifies with African Americans.
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Spirituals are the Southern sacred "folk" songs created and first sung by African Americans during slavery. Their original composers are unknown, and they have assumed a position of collective ownership by the whole community.
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In addition to outlining various cultural and historical influences of the spirituals, this site also includes selected samples of interviews conducted with performing artists, community workers and composers around the country who have shared The Spirituals Project’s mission of keeping the spirituals tradition alive...
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This interest was rather increased by the fact that I had for many years heard of this class of songs under the name of "Negro Spirituals," and had even heard some of them sung by friends from South Carolina. I could now gather on their own soil these strange plants, which I had before seen as in museums alone.
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Negro spirituals were the first uniquely American music to come out of this country. European classics, Anglo ballads, hymns, and Irish jigs and reels dominated American music until the slaves created their songs of sorrow and hope to sustain them while the institution of slavery lasted.
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(1) To learn about the role spirituals have played in African American history and religion; (2) To examine Harriet Tubman's use of spirituals in her work for the Underground Railroad; (3) To explore the continuing power of the spiritual in the Civil Rights Movement and as a shared American heritage;
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