A kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States.
1They came singing an old negro spiritual.
2If y'all hear an old Negro spiritual in the background, that's me.
3The piece is structured around the singing of five traditional Negro spirituals.
4I mean we sang Negro Spirituals to help us break off of plantations.
5They have referred to these as 'contemporary negro spirituals'.
6Paul Robeson told them about him; composes negro spirituals.
7As the Negro spiritual says: I got shoes, you got shoes, All God's children got shoes.
8An African ancestral song, a Buddhist chant, a Negro spiritual with codes and keys to freedom.
9"It's a Negro spiritual." Her smile made it clear that she approved.
10The old Negro spiritual says, "Ezekiel saw a wheel 'way up in the middle of the air."
11While Negro spirituals were not imported directly from Africa, they were more than an attempt to copy the master's music.
12Films such as 1957's Funny Face use Black southern gospel and inspiration from Negro spirituals for a whole musical number.
13Their first group singing of a Sunday consisted of Negro spirituals in spondaic and trochaic verse, and phrased in many minors.
14The prayer-filled hook, powerful gospel choir chorus, and drill sergeant cadence of the beat blended masterfully on Ye's new age Negro spiritual.
15Gospel music is rooted in the Black church experience of the African-American South and birthed out of the Negro spirituals of slavery.
16Committing to memory the leading lines of all the Negro spiritual songs is no easy task, for they run up into the hundreds.
Translations for negro spiritual