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Meanings of Negro spiritual in English

Portuguese
espiritual negro
Catalan
cançó espiritual negra

A kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States.

espiritual negro
Usage of Negro spiritual in English
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If y'all hear an old Negro spiritual in the background, that's me.
Ebony
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As the Negro spiritual says: I got shoes, you got shoes, All God's children got shoes.
Ebony
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An African ancestral song, a Buddhist chant, a Negro spiritual with codes and keys to freedom.
Ebony
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The old Negro spiritual says, "Ezekiel saw a wheel 'way up in the middle of the air."
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
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The prayer-filled hook, powerful gospel choir chorus, and drill sergeant cadence of the beat blended masterfully on Ye's new age Negro spiritual.
Ebony
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Committing to memory the leading lines of all the Negro spiritual songs is no easy task, for they run up into the hundreds.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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Finally, the black woman strode out to the microphone at the center of the stage and began to sing a slow-moving Negro spiritual.
Beautiful assassin
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Swing Low Sweet Chariot Bet you didn't know this hymn was originally a Negro spiritual, sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University.
The South African
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The piece is structured around the singing of five traditional Negro spirituals.
The Guardian
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I mean we sang Negro Spirituals to help us break off of plantations.
Ebony
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They have referred to these as 'contemporary negro spirituals'.
Radio NZ
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Paul Robeson told them about him; composes negro spirituals.
The new yorker
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They came singing an old negro spiritual.
Birthright: A Novel
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"It's a Negro spiritual." Her smile made it clear that she approved.
The arms maker of berlin
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While Negro spirituals were not imported directly from Africa, they were more than an attempt to copy the master's music.
The Black Experience in America
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Films such as 1957's Funny Face use Black southern gospel and inspiration from Negro spirituals for a whole musical number.
Ebony
Translations for Negro spiritual