Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 329 views

    What Is Gospel Music

    Uploaded by

    Anais Tudor
    Gospel music is a style of Christian music that draws from popular music traditions such as country, blues, and ragtime while also inspiring those genres. Many Gospel songs emerged from traditional church hymns. Over time, Gospel incorporated more secular influences which made it entertaining as well as reverent. Gospel artists like Little Richard and Aretha Franklin helped shape R&B and rock music. Gospel music originated in the early 17th century in Scotland through the tradition of "lining out" church psalms, which was brought to Southern Black churches and evolved into call-and-response singing. This call-and-response style made Gospel hymns accessible even to those who could not read by allowing a lead singer to guide others.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    What Is Gospel Music

    Uploaded by

    Anais Tudor
    329 views1 page
    Gospel music is a style of Christian music that draws from popular music traditions such as country, blues, and ragtime while also inspiring those genres. Many Gospel songs emerged from traditional church hymns. Over time, Gospel incorporated more secular influences which made it entertaining as well as reverent. Gospel artists like Little Richard and Aretha Franklin helped shape R&B and rock music. Gospel music originated in the early 17th century in Scotland through the tradition of "lining out" church psalms, which was brought to Southern Black churches and evolved into call-and-response singing. This call-and-response style made Gospel hymns accessible even to those who could not read by allowing a lead singer to guide others.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    What is Gospel Music

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Gospel music is a style of Christian music that draws from popular music traditions such as country, blues, and ragtime while also inspiring those genres. Many Gospel songs emerged from traditional church hymns. Over time, Gospel incorporated more secular influences which made it entertaining as well as reverent. Gospel artists like Little Richard and Aretha Franklin helped shape R&B and rock music. Gospel music originated in the early 17th century in Scotland through the tradition of "lining out" church psalms, which was brought to Southern Black churches and evolved into call-and-response singing. This call-and-response style made Gospel hymns accessible even to those who could not read by allowing a lead singer to guide others.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    329 views1 page

    What Is Gospel Music

    Uploaded by

    Anais Tudor
    Gospel music is a style of Christian music that draws from popular music traditions such as country, blues, and ragtime while also inspiring those genres. Many Gospel songs emerged from traditional church hymns. Over time, Gospel incorporated more secular influences which made it entertaining as well as reverent. Gospel artists like Little Richard and Aretha Franklin helped shape R&B and rock music. Gospel music originated in the early 17th century in Scotland through the tradition of "lining out" church psalms, which was brought to Southern Black churches and evolved into call-and-response singing. This call-and-response style made Gospel hymns accessible even to those who could not read by allowing a lead singer to guide others.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 1

    What is Gospel Music?

    Gospel music is a style of Christian music that has both inspired and drawn from popular
    music traditions. By definition, Gospel music can derive from any number of ethnic styles and
    religious traditions, but in practice, Black American Gospel music dominates the genre.

    Many Gospel songs emerged from traditional church hymns. Over time, Gospel began
    incorporating traits of secular music—particularly country music, blues, and ragtime—which
    made the music as entertaining as it was reverent. Gospel's relationship with secular music ran
    in both directions; many Gospel singers and soloists began their musical journeys singing in
    church before transitioning to popular music. Gospel artists including Little Richard and
    Aretha Franklin helped shape the sound of R&B and rock 'n' roll.

    Where did Gospel music come from?

    Gospel music can be traced to the early 17th century, in a rather unlikely place - Scotland! At
    this time, there was a tradition in many Scottish Protestant churches of 'lining out' when
    singing the psalms:one person would sing a solo and others would follow afterwards. As
    Scottish immigrants travelled to the USA, they carried the tradition with them to churches in
    America, and the tradition of lining out evolved into 'call and response' singing in Southern
    churches. This was especially prominent in churches that had a mostly Black congregation,
    since 'call and response' singing had already been part of their musical traditions since before
    they were brought to America.

    This early and foundational part of the iconic Gospel sound was particularly helpful since
    literacy wasn't a guaranteed thing in those days. Gospel hymns commonly used a lot of
    repetition and a structure where a lead singer could directly guide other singers, compared to
    more traditional hymns, which had more complicated lyrics that were harder to remember and
    sing without a written hymnsheet. Because of that, these early Gospel hymns were a great
    way to allowthose who could not read the opportunity to participate.

    Some of the most famous contemporary Gospel songs, including "Amazing Grace" and "Rock
    of Ages," began as hymnal songs in the eighteenth-century Anglican church. Starting just as
    written lyrics, these hymns would later be set to the melodies we know today. Initially, the
    hymns weren'tdirectly connected with African-American Gospel music, but over time they
    were adopted by African-Americans as well as white Americans, and Newton's connection
    with the abolition movement provided cross-fertilisation between Black and White churches,
    giving these early Gospel songs real cultural significance and importance.

    You might also like