Some of music’s biggest songs are reworked versions of older ... Bob Dylan borrowed a melody from the African American spiritual “No More Auction Block For Me” to write “Blowin’ In ...

Private worship often included "shouts," ecstatic spiritual circle dances ... himself from such blackface minstrel songs, which mocked African American speech patterns and almost universally ...

“Baby of Bethlehem” (also known as “Singing in the Land”) is an African-American spiritual that was also included in the same 1953 volume of Ruth Crawford Seeger’s American Folk Songs ...

The Winnsboro Easter Rock Ensemble carries on a women-led African American spiritual ritual, originally performed by enslaved Africans in the Northeast Louisiana Delta region of Franklin Parish ...