Difference between revisions of "Gospel:music"

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Gospel music refers either to the Christian religious music that first came out of African-American churches in the 1930's or, more loosely, to both black gospel music and to the religious music composed and sung by white southern Christian artists. While the separation between the two styles was never absolute — both drew from the Methodist hymnal. Artists in one tradition sometimes sang songs belonging to the other — the sharp division between black and white America, particularly black and white churches, kept the two apart. While those divisions have lessened significantly in the past fifty years, the two traditions are still distinct.

For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_music