Negro spiritual
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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And all of that life is in their music, which, thanks to Dorsey’s innovation, weds the plaint, woe and human upside of the Negro spiritual with the rhythm of the blues.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2019
Sometimes, Lewis fears that “we have lost our way,” and turns to a Negro spiritual sung during the movement: “I’m so glad trouble don’t last always.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2019
He was drawn to indigenous American forms, by which he meant the blues, the work song, the Negro spiritual and the show tune, and his compositions referred to those forms.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2013
Few if any in the audiences had ever heard a Negro spiritual before.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this ceremony he spends a half hour or more chanting one Negro spiritual after another.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
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