Gospel Music

Gospel Music

Gospel Music is believed to have originated from African American slaves. It was a way of expressing faith and praises through joyful music so very much distinctive of them. Gospel songs contain many different themes that arouse many different emotions in all its listeners. The songs also have very strong passion that was powered by the slaves willful creation of their own worship hymns in spite of their hardships. The “white gospel” was the white man’s version of the gospel; it was also known as the southern gospel. This form of song was believed to have originated in the late 1800s from white evangelical Americans, yet the style of the song came from the hymn. Usually southern gospel music does not include instruments at all or sparingly, but not always. The contemporary Christian music was derived from southern gospel music. Bluegrass gospels are a subgenre of the southern gospel as well. These bluegrass gospels grew popular because of its secular artists, including Elvis Presley and other evangelists including Billy Graham and Jimmy Swaggart. But history has it that southern gospel music has been developed from the Holiness churches that arose in the first decade of the 20th century throughout the south. This phenomenon created new kind of music for this new forms of worship—in addition to those traditional hymns that were created in the 18th and 19th century. Southern gospel music is called such so as to distinguish it from black gospel. Mostly, southern gospel and its roots are attributed to the published works and “normal schools” of Aldine S. Kieffer as well as Ephraim Ruebush. And like black gospel, southern gospel also has numerous notable artists and performers.

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