SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has added 12 new hymns to its collection, "Hymns—For Home and Church," with lyrics available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and ...

Gospel music is a style that speaks to the soul. The fundamentals of its expression can be traced back to the late 1800s and early 1900s, through genre mixing blues, spirituals, hymns, African rhythms ...

(RNS) — A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was ...

The Los Angeles Master Chorale is launching its inaugural “Community Series: Sacred Spaces” concert series, led by Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director Grant Gershon, with two upcoming performances ...

ST. MARYS - In honor of Black History Month, Valerie Boyer, an activist, musician and educator, discussed Negro spirituals, a type of religious folksong that enslaved people sang and their descendants ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - They are songs that tell stories of suffering, faith, and hope, but this part of American history that has existed for hundreds of years is in danger of slipping away. Negro ...

Andrea Asuaje is a senior radio producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and ...

U. S. Negroes are generally credited with two great contributions to U. S. folk music: 1) spirituals, 2) the musical dialect of jazz. Why these two contributions should be so different has long ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal inaccuracies in their lyrics as well as a ...

A woman is pictured in a file photo singing the closing hymn during Sunday Mass at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Alexandria, Va. (OSV News photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec) (OSV News) — Bishop W. Shawn ...