Gospel music

when we sing gospel, we think that the current gospel is the one related to the past of the black slaves, but they didn't sing for a public and their songs weren't sold in CDs. 

The music of slaves was a genuine folkmusic with no composer of lirics. The songs helped them to endure their situation, therefore, it was a way of criticism and answer to life. They were an interpretation of the Bible in their slave life. In fact they were prayers to God for deliverance and a testimony against slavery.

Fisk  Jubilee introduced Negro Spirituals in 1871 .It was not to became famous but to insure their institute, and their song were not happy, the audience became conscious of the suffering of the slaves. Samuel Coleridge- Taylor arranged them for concerts and Harry T. Burleigh arranged them for solo with piano. Others added songs but they maintained the tradition of the folk songs.

The roots of the black music gospel probably lie in the African-style nineteenth-century church. The happy songs could come from there. The composed gospel song, owes its origin to Thomas A. Dorsey, who composed religious songs and promoted them in churches. they were in a blues-like style. Since then a lot of gospel songs have been composed.

The spiritual sense of the black music of the slaves has been sustained, however the most famous gospel songs are the ones that have been created or arranged. The original slave songs can be identified because they deal with nature, suffering and freedom.

Bibliography:

Southall, G. (1974). Black Composers and Religious Music. The Black Perspective in Music, 2(1), 45-50. doi:10.2307/1214148