The tunes and the beats of negro spirituals and Gospel songs are highly influenced by the music of their actual cultural environment. It means that their styles are continuously changing.

This section is organized by Spiritual Workshop; ... Marching round selma; Marching up the heavenly road NEW SONG; Master going to sell us tomorrow; Mary and Martha; ... We am climbin' Jacob's ladder;

But of all the "spirituals" that which surprised me the most, I think- perhaps because it was that in which external nature furnished the images most directly,-was this.

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Read Thomas Wentworth Higginson's article "Negro Spirituals." ... But of all the "spirituals" that which surprised me the most, I think- perhaps because it was that in which external nature furnished

Negro spirituals were the first uniquely American music to come out of this country.

But of all the "spirituals" that which surprised me the most, I think, -- perhaps because it was that in which external nature furnished the images most directly, -- was this.

It was at first assumed that Black spirituals represented, ... "Aframerican folk art, an art by Africa out of America, Negro creative genius working under the spur and backlash of American conditions,

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