What is evangelical music?
The term "evangelical music" in fact includes a number of subgenres, from the original black clergy to the most perceptive Christian "praise and worship" used in modern worship. This genre generally deals with religious - mostly Christian - themes based on sacred texts and traditions. As with rock music, the gospel has evolved from two separate but influential ways: the white religious hymn and African-American traditional spirituals. Today's subgenres can be placed on the way of the intersection between the two music philosophies.
Music has always been an integral part of Christian worship since the founding of the first churches. However, much of this early Christian music was not intended for the inhabitants to perform because it was in the form of singing or musical liturgy during a mass ceremony. When the Protestant movement gained popularity, the concept of composition of the hymns for the congregation singing also became Morkeme to accept. When Europeans began to colonize America,Many of them used these anthems during often lengthy worship. This import of sacred ecclesiastical music formed the basis of "white" evangelical music because the composers used the musical styles of their time to create new anthems.
Meanwhile, the slave trade introduced the native Africans into foreign and often hostile land. Many of these slaves have brought a rich tradition of spiritual songs and would use these songs to communicate or vagina with others in the fields. Christian worship became a central part of the African-American community, and these spirituals formed the basis of their emotional and passionate style of worship. Negro Spirituals provided a feeling of comfort at the time of hardship, and many of these songs were combined with secular musical genres such as blues or ragtime to create the earliest "black" gospel of music.
both ways collided in the south at the beginning of the 20th century. Among artistsFrom the White Earth, they often exchanged musical ideas with their black counterparts, including the use of religious themes in secular music. White musicians were quite familiar with harmony and positive properties of modern anthem, which led some to the creation of vocal quartets supported instruments that commonly occur in rural bands. This branch with white singers using many voice techniques of their black counterparts has become known as Southern Gospel.
While white artists enjoyed success in the genre of southern gospels, black artists were supposed to find a general audience for their music. Many black artists considered it easier to penetrate secular musical genres such as boogie-woogie, jazz or blues. Only a handful of black artists before the 1950s managed to bring its form of black evangelical music to the national audience. Soon Rock and Roll as Little Richard and Ray Charles managed to integrate soulful sounds of the Gospel genre but their musicShe remained firmly in the secular empire.
The music of the Gospel may have received the best introduction to the general public through the efforts of a young white singer called Elvis Presley. Presley grew up and listened to black music of the Gospel and unsuccessfully bankruptcy for the southern Evangelical Quartet before finding success in the world of secular music. Presley's portrayal of the black clergy called "peace in the valley" showed that the genre can be launched to the general listening audience. The following recordings of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and many other famous singers helped establish the Gospel music as commercially viable.
In the 1970s, the music of the southern gospel developed in a more polished modern sound. With the rise of alternative churches and worship centers aimed at youth, the form of a modern genre called "Praise and worship" has also become very popular. Meanwhile, many black musicians have adapted a new style based on bolder urban sounds and the strong influence of R&B. This suBgenr is generally known as contemporary music of the city's gospel.