It is impossible to think of American music in this century without such Southern-derived forms as ragtime, jazz, blues, country, gospel ... traditions - such as old-time fiddling and string ...

You're probably familiar with classic hymns like “Silent Night” and “The First Noel,” but you may not know the history behind some of these centuries-old songs ... At the time, it was ...

The United Methodist Church of Ludington, 5810 E. Bryant Road, is having an old-fashioned Hymn Sing on Sunday evening, November 10, 2024, at 6 p.m.

A modern reworking of an ancient hymn, a vast acoustic, and a deeply moving video. A few years ago, an Icelandic indie-folk group walked into a train station in the German city of Wuppertal and ...

One eulogist noted the hymn ... short time later he mailed it to Mr. Charles H. Gabriel who wrote the music.” (Hymnology Archive, and Treasury of Hymn Histories) Gabriel edited 35 gospel ...

Hymns mean so much to so many people and if you have a favourite BBC Songs of Praise would like to know. Choose your all-time number one ... and gets its name, “Old Hundredth”, from its ...

At week’s end, as the returns came down the mountains by mulepack, slight, mustached Julius Nyerere, 36-year-old head of the Tanganyika ... But as his followers sang a little hymn to “Bwana ...

For generations, gospel music has been a vital source of strength and resilience for Black Americans, sustaining them through ...

It has been said that as the trains carrying the boxcar loads of Jewish men, women and children to their deaths in the gas chambers passed by German churches the churches played their hymns more ...

“It is time to give credit where credit is due ... “From our instruments to our Southern gospel hymns, the genre began with ...

The genre’s roots run much deeper than that, drawing from Kentucky bluegrass, Southern gospel hymns, Appalachian folk music ... we pull the top one or two points on the most popular maps to help ...