The post Santigold Premieres Comeback Album Spirituals: Stream appeared first on Consequence. Santigold has reveal her new album, Spirituals, out September 9th. Take a listen below. For Spirituals, ...

As frequently as music fans tend to point to the early 2000s as the dawn of our digital enlightenment, consider the ways those first few years online now feel like the dark ages. Bound by terrestrial ...

During the era of slavery, those who labored in captivity pioneered a musical motif that began as “unaccompanied songs of sorrow and hope," said Everett McCorvey, founder, director and principal ...

Santigold gets in the interrogation room with herself in the new short video accompanying the arrival of her latest song, “Ain’t Ready.” The track will appear on the musician’s new album, Spirituals, ...

Throughout February, WTOP is celebrating Black History Month. Join us on air and online as we bring you the stories, people and places that make up our diverse community. Jackson Caesar will be ...

Negro Spirituals definitely came before jazz, blues, gospel music. The slaves created these songs before coming to freedom and then creating these other forms of music that were birthed out of the ...

The Richmond Symphony is marking Martin Luther King Jr. weekend with two concerts celebrating gospel composer Richard Smallwood, followed by a Sunday program honoring the great Civil Rights leader. Dr ...

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 ...

Juneteenth is now a federal holiday and to mark the occasion, we present an encore of music that grew out of tremendous pain, but led to hope. The Spirituals Project Choir is based at the University ...

We’re headed into the last weekend of Black History and The Marsh has just the show for the occasion. “An Evening of Negro Spirituals: Crossing Rivers and Building Bridges through Song” is a solo show ...