Dig deep into the origin story of Black gospel music, coming out of slavery, blending with the blues tradition, and soaring to new heights during the Great Migration. From Mahalia to Kirk Franklin, in the last century, gospel music has become the dominant form of African American religious expression and provided a soundtrack of healing and uplift to those at the front lines of protest and change.
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Air Date: 2024-02-12
GOSPEL’s hour 1 takes the gospel train north to Chicago, where southern migrants Thomas A. Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson an...
Air Date: 2024-02-13
Starting in the 1940s, GOSPEL’s hour 2 explores the Golden Age of Gospel — the dramatic explosion of Black sacred mus...
Air Date: 2024-02-13
GOSPEL’s hour 3 reveals how gospel was going mainstream and family dynasties, many raised in the Church of God in Chr...
Air Date: 2024-02-14
GOSPEL’s hour 4 opens in the 1990s, when a new generation of music producers, record executives and artists embraced ...