Gospel may have started in the South, but L.A.'s influence helped to commercialize and popularize the genre outside the church. Gospel music sprouted from the pews and pulpits of African American ...

Dranes was a blind black pianist who shook the foundations of gospel in the 1920s by introducing secular styles like barrelhouse and ragtime into... Arizona Dranes, Forgotten Mother Of The Gospel Beat ...

PLATTSBURGH — State Gospel Choir’s annual holiday concert will embrace the PBS program “Downton Abbey” with costumes and contests becoming an integral theme of the evening Dec. 7 at 5 p.m. in the E.

In the 1920s, the sound of music in the black church underwent a revolution. Standing at 40th and State Street in Chicago, Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ was a witness to what occurred. The ...