A music genre created by generations of African-Americans.
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They have referred to these as 'contemporary negro spirituals'.
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Paul Robeson told them about him; composes negro spirituals.
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The piece is structured around the singing of five traditional Negro spirituals.
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I mean we sang Negro Spirituals to help us break off of plantations.
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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.
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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.
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Their first group singing of a Sunday consisted of Negro spirituals in spondaic and trochaic verse, and phrased in many minors.
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Gospel music is rooted in the Black church experience of the African-American South and birthed out of the Negro spirituals of slavery.
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She was a glamorous American who was the more exotic, in Carrington's eyes, because of her willingness to sing Negro spirituals at London parties.
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What brought the audience to its feet were Negro spirituals and an ode to transsexualism, sung to the tune of The Lady is a Tramp.