Water and the Spirit: Exploring Spirituals and Gospel Music

Kenneth Gayle, Tenor
Rodney Waters, Piano
Sheldon Nunn, Lecturer
Presented by Divas World Productions

Although numerous elements of spirituals can be traced to African sources, African-American spirituals are a musical form that is indigenous and specific to the religious experience of Africans in the United States and their descendants. They are a result of the interaction of music and religion from Africa with music and religion of European origin.  This Song Salon will trace the lineage from the very specific African-American experience of the traditional spiritual to the more universal world of modern gospel.