Black Gospel music
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Black gospel music, often called gospel music or simply gospel, is the traditional music of the Black diaspora in the United States. It is rooted in the musical practices of enslaved Africans such as
Transcription of Cory Henry "Following the Preacher" (talking back) from George Collier
Thomas A. Dorsey
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Thomas Andrew Dorsey was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. He penned 3,000 songs, a third of them go
Black Gospel music
…for civil rights", helping create unity and faith for the work. As a popular form of commercial music, Black gospel was revolutionized in the 1930s by Thomas Dorsey, the "father of gospel music", who is credited with composing more than 1,000 gospel songs, including "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and "Peace in the…
Thomas Dorsey during his "Georgia Tom" blues period, late 1920s
Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, 1964, where Dorsey was music director for 50 years