Composers like Harry T. Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett and William Dawson, who applied Western classical music training to the traditional spiritual and... Wade In The Water Ep. 8: African American ...

Margaret Bonds arranged over fifty African-American spirituals for various instruments, one of which is the five-minute piano work Troubled Water, based on the spiritual Wade in the Water.The context ...

The African-American religious folk songs known as spirituals grew out of the slavery experience and the introduction of Christianity into slaves' lives. Though rooted in African musical tradition, ...

Former Chapel Hill mayor Howard Lee and his daughter, Angela Lee, will lead an event this Sunday to teach about the history of African American spirituals — and they’ll sing a few, too. The event, ...