Songs of survival, defeat and hope swept through cotton fields in the antebellum south. Slaves used them to navigate a brutal ...

Gospel was developed in the early 1920s by a tall man from Georgia, a blues piano player and composer known as Georgia Tom who was a former accompanist for blues singer Ma Rainey. In 1921, hearing an ...

In the 1920s, the sound of music in the black church underwent a revolution. Standing at 40th and State Street in Chicago, Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ was a witness to what occurred. The ...

The 48th Annual Brumley Gospel Sing will be held on August 3-6, 2016. Tickets to go on sale January 4, 2016. When Albert E. Brumley began writing music in the late 1920s, he never imagined his songs ...

More than 75 gospel groups from across the country have gathered in Birmingham for the American Gospel Quartet Convention, which concludes tonight from 6:30 p.m. to midnight at More Than Conquerors ...

Dranes was a blind black pianist who shook the foundations of gospel in the 1920s by introducing secular styles like barrelhouse and ragtime into... Arizona Dranes, Forgotten Mother Of The Gospel Beat ...