Sentences with phrase «negro spirituals»

* Any bluegrass gospel ballad that started as a negro spiritual.

Or rather, perhaps in his celebration of the negro spiritual, he was speaking about music which rises above the «color line» in the same way that he says Shakespeare and Goethe do.

She knew that «the world is in God's hands», as the negro spiritual says — God made it, God loves it, God keeps it.

Before Comey could get five words out, students put up their Black power fists and began singing the timeless negro spiritual «We Shall Not Be Moved.»

Not exact matches

For that matter W.E.B. DuBois wrote of the distinctive sublimity of the «negro» spiritual, and he claims that only through the experience of slavery could such spiritual strivings come to the fore..

With this faith, we will be able to achieve this new day, when all of God's children — black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics — will be able to join hands and sing with the Negroes in the spiritual of old.

Blame Softley, too, for a negro - spiritual - cum - Moby style that doesn't so much make a few of the classic blues tunes on the soundtrack immediate for a modern audience as squeeze them through the pastry horn of adolescence, weightlessly depositing every potentially atmospheric moment like a sweet little decorative nothing.