Spirituals(spirituals)
A spiritual is a
African-American
song with areligious text. Traditionally
monophonic
and
a cappella
, these songs are antecedents of the
blues
. They began onSouthern
slave
plantations
as
work songs
, sometimes with hidden messages of rebellion and escape from the slaves'owners.
Samples
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Listen to "Pharoah's Army Got Drowned," artists unknown (765 KB)
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Download recording
of "MyGood Lord Done Been Here" spiritual song from the Library of Congress' John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States RecordingTrip; performed by Aunt Florida Hampton on May 29, 1939 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P.W. Tartt in
Livingston, Alabama
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Download recording
- "Rollthe Old Chariot Along" spiritual and
sea shanty
from the Library of Congress'
Gordon Collection
; performed byunknown persons in the Bay Area of California in the early 1920s
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Download recording
- "Deep Downin My Heart" - Spiritual from the Library of Congress'
Gordon Collection
; performed by W. M. Givens in
Darien, Georgia
on about March 19, 1926
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