GOSPEL MUSIC

Music Soothes the Soul

Music Soothes the Soul

Introduction

The word Gospel music may refer to either (strictly) to the religious music that emerged in churches African American in the thirties and the religious music composed and played by artists of any ethnicity, the southern States. The separation between the two styles, in fact, was never absolute: both come from the tradition of Methodist hymns.

In both traditions, some performers, such as Mahalia Jackson, to appear on limited contexts purely religious, while others, like the Golden Gate Quartet and Clara Ward, also like singing in nightclubs. Most artists, like the Jordanaires, Al Green and Solomon Burke tend to play in both contexts (Moore, 2002). It is common for a piece that includes secular religious performance, although it almost never happens the other way.

Theses Statement

Gospel music soothes the soul more.

The Meaning of Soul Music

The city of Memphis stood once again at the epicenter of the national movement when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated there in April of 1968, sparking violent uprisings in Detroit, Los Angeles, and other cities around the country and unalterably changing both the course of the civil rights struggle and tone and content of soul music. All writers agree that stylistically soul music was a merger between gospel music and secular forms of popular music; blues, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll. All agree that in terms of its social and political significance soul music transcended mere (disposable) pop fashion. It served as a musical soundtrack to, and as such also as an integral part of, the American civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s (library.gcu.edu). Where the accounts differ, we blend as much as anything else, differing understandings and assessments of the civil rights struggle itself and this critical period of American cultural and political history. This is only to be expected given the points of agreement just mentioned.

Rhythm and Blues

The Rhythm and Blues (R & B) or Jumping Music is a musical genre originally derived from the jazz, the gospel and the blues. The musical term introduced in the United States in 1949 by Jerry Wexler of the magazine Billboard. The original R & B, now known as rhythm and blues classic, has evolved taking two popular strands known as a contemporary rhythm and blues and one that has practically no relation to the subgenus mainstream rhythm and blues.

Gospel Music

Gospel music, spiritual music or gospel music at its most restrictive definition is the religious music that emerged from African American churches in the eighteenth century and became popular during the decade of 1930. More generally, it is often also include religious music composed and sung by the southern Christian singers, regardless of their ethnicity.

Unlike, Christian hymns Gospel music is of light character in music. The original word is Godspell, which in Castilian translated as "God proclaims." This form of singing called, and it was a singing gospel, inviting people to God. The lyrics tend to reflect the values of Christian ...