Gospel - Origin...
Where am i -> Home -> Gospel -> Gospel music - Definition With ragtime blues and profane music, the gospel is at the origin of jazz music. The religious liturgies as of the time imposed slavery and made it possible for Blacks to learn songs and anthems of European origin, melodies which they sometimes interpreted by spicing them with rhythms, techniques and African receipts. These exchanges were locatable in the middle of the XVIIIE century, but it is only at the end of the American Civil War that a whole lot of texts will be established. Besides gospel whose style remains faithful to the European tradition (Fisk University Jubilee Singers) develops, in particular in the churches pentecotists, a more fervescent music: chœurs with accompaniment of organ, tambourines, even battery and saxophone. With the search to communication with Jesus & exorcizing, miraculous cures, preachers and faithful followers, used gospel music as a form of communication,badgering themselves and then starting again from bottom of the beat....More Gospel In addition to many melody contributions, harmonic and syncopated, the frequentation of such churches as of childhood was for a number of futures jazzmenmore of an institution and more decisive than that of the conservatoires.The high-speed motorboats of gospel did not only content themselves with playing at sacred places, they put up different posters, (Apollo de Harlem, in particular),in festivals, night clubs or concert halls. Sallie Martin and Thomas A. Dorsey contributed to keeping the rhythm of gospel music at 1930, by introducing harmonies and the melodies of the Blues and popular ballades. The most famous groups were Dixie Humming Birds, Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Ward Singers, Staple Singers. Among the soloists were distinguished Blind Willie Johnson, James Cleveland, Marion Williams, Alex Bradford, Bessie Griffin, and especially Mahalia Jackson (1911 -1972), native of New-Orleans. During this time,1980 -1990, the religious vocal tradition seems to find a second breath with, for example, the group Take Six and the singer Tramaine Hawkins.

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