American folk music

Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade. Spirituals incorporate the "sing songs", work songs, and plantation songs that evolved into the blues and gospel songs in church. In the nineteenth century, the word "spirituals" referred to all these

form of American roots music

genre of music and radio format

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genre of North American folk music

subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s

Period of time in the mid-twentieth century in which the folk music of America revived

group of folk music genres from the United States

historical type of vocal music

American novelist (1932–2007)