Music played a key role in African American religious life. Hymns and spirituals, many written by black composers, accompanied preaching in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and other ...

His current book project, The Gospel in Black and White: Race and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century American Hymns, uncovers African American and secular musical influences in gospel hymnody, a ...

Latter-day Saints around the world will now be singing an African American spiritual with a toe ... is one of 15 new hymns added to the church’s growing global songbook, “Hymns — For Home ...