For the first time, traditional Negro spirituals will be sung as an opera, when Seattle Opera hosts the world premiere of “Jubilee,” on October 12. You can listen to the music and the story of how ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- "Spirituals," says Professor Roland M. Carter, who will direct the Huntsville Spiritual Chorale in Saturday's Spiritual Jubilee, "require an inner rhythm." Concerts this weekend ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) - For nearly a quarter-century, the American Spiritual Ensemble has toured nationally and internationally with one mission - to keep the American Negro spiritual alive. “As a ...

One of the largest and most significant forms of American folksongs, the Negro spiritual, has a long history in America, but how do these religious songs relate to the music heard in the Black church ...

Want to convince your friends you’re a bigger music snob than they are? Here’s a cheat sheet: an interactive timeline showing the birthplace and evolution of different genres of western dance music.

Not far from where Civil War re-enactors performed drills at Old Salem yesterday, the notes of traditional Negro spirituals filled the sanctuary at St. Philips Moravian Church. St. Philips was built ...