African-American spiritual songs

Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade. Spirituals incorporate the "sing songs", work songs, and plantation songs that evolved into the blues and gospel songs in church. In the nineteenth century, the word "spirituals" referred to all these

American gospel hymn

"Kum ba yah" ("Come by here") is an African-American spiritual of disputed origin, known to have been sung in the Gullah culture of the islands off South Carolina and Georgia, with ties to enslaved Central Africans. Originally an appeal to God to come to the aid of those in need, the song is thought to have spread from the islands to other Southern states and the North, as well as to other places outside the United States.

American negro spiritual song

traditional song; African-American spiritual

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Christmas song written and composed by Jester Hairston; originally recorded by Harry Belafonte and released in 1956

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spiritual song

Gospel song

public domain spiritual

folk song

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American folk song

folk song

song with lyrics by Skip James performed by Cream

Negro spiritual

traditional gospel song