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It said the new hymns would be available online in four ... “This Little Light of Mine” originated among African American Christians and grew in popularity in the 1960s. The church statement ...
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 ...