Negro Spirituals
The Negro spiritual is a type of music vocal and sacred slaves born in the United States in the seventeenth century , and which will cause movement gospel. The word also means a work , a song belonging to this musical.
- We can write "Negro spirituals". The plural "Negro spirituals" or "Negro spirituals".
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History
The history of the Negro Spiritual starts with the deportation of twelve to fifteen million Africans in the Old World (Portugal, Spain, Holland, Britain, France, Italy, Sweden and Denmark) for trade. Composed of men and women, these ethnic groups are deported from West Africa. Most reactions are already in their respective ethnic groups, prisoners of Africans but also Arab traders. Established a genuine trading ... The first Negro spirituals or black spiritual songs of revelation is a free interpretation of Scripture ...
Some famous spirituals
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot ''* Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- Go Down, Moses
Bibliography
- River deep, dark river: the "Negro Spirituals", comments and translations of Marguerite Yourcenar , Paris, Gallimard, 1964, new ed. Gallimard, 1982 ( ISBN 2-07-026726-1 )
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