Songs of survival, defeat and hope swept through cotton fields in the antebellum south. Slaves used them to navigate a brutal ...

In the 1920s, the sound of music in the black church underwent a revolution. Standing at 40th and State Street in Chicago, Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ was a witness to what occurred. The ...

Chicago has earned bragging rights as the birthplace of Black gospel music. It was here that gospel was first composed, sung, played, published, promoted, recorded, broadcast, and formalized—the last ...

The 48th Annual Brumley Gospel Sing will be held on August 3-6, 2016. Tickets to go on sale January 4, 2016. When Albert E. Brumley began writing music in the late 1920s, he never imagined his songs ...

Dranes was a blind black pianist who shook the foundations of gospel in the 1920s by introducing secular styles like barrelhouse and ragtime into... Arizona Dranes, Forgotten Mother Of The Gospel Beat ...