African rhythms, ideas of sin and the Hammond organ: A brief history of gospel music’s evolution

For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it ...

CeCe Winans wins 18th Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance/Song

Detroit-born Winans and the First Lady of Gospel Music, Shirley Caesar, won the Grammy for Best Gospel Performance/Song for their duet "Come Jesus Come." This win matches that of the late Queen of ...
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Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments

Author and Baylor University professor Robert Darden tells stories - and plays recordings - from the Baylor University Libraries' Black Gospel Music Restoration Project in an on-going weekly series of ...
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Morgantown History Museum opens 'Gospel Singing Koon Family' exhibit

MORGANTOWN, W.Va (WDTV) - Music history is rich in North Central West Virginia as one iconic gospel group was remembered Friday night. For more than six decades ‘The Gospel Singing Koon Family’ ...