gospel roots
Church music heritage
Gospel roots refers to the influence of African American gospel music on an artist's style or a genre's development.
Musicians with gospel roots often learned to sing in church before crossing into secular music: Her gospel roots are evident in every performance.
The phrase appears frequently in discussions of soul, R&B, and rock and roll, all of which draw heavily from gospel traditions.
- spiritualRelating to the soul
- hymnsReligious songs of worship
- soulInnermost animating essence
- churchPlace of Christian worship
- choirOrganized group of singers
hallelujah · plantation · cotton fields · slavery · tradition · camp meeting · harmony · clapping · tambourine · preacher · congregation · Mahalia · testimony · holiness · revival · ancestors · fieldwork · spirituals
- ElvisGraceland, jumpsuit, Hound Dog, the King, Heartbreak Hotel
- Music OriginsNew Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Jamaica, Motown
- Americana Musicspirituals, folk ballads, hymn books, Camptown Races, Beautiful Dreamer
- musical influencesinspiration, mentors, idols, predecessors, pioneers
- grassroots musicfolk music, folk, bluegrass, acoustic music, singer-songwriter
- ethnomusicologyethnomusicology, fieldwork, folk revival, field recordings, traditional music