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 ...

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, ...

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God is gonna trouble these waters. Watching the throng of Black women bobbing in waist-deep waters of Hetzel Pool made impossible not to think of “Wade In The Water”, an African American song that ...

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, ...