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In the volunteer project, we created a Wikipedia page for this historic television show #TVGospelTime - the first all-black program, with black hosts, black guests, black audience, black technical crew, black music, and even black advertising (1962-1965)
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The TV show #TVGospelTime was ground breaking being the first TV show dedicated exclusively to black music. It gave first TV appearance for countless singers. And some spectacular people were first seen there like Dionne Warwick when she was sang with the group Drinkard Singers 
Just about every major gospel artist, band, singer, and choir was featured during the 3 year run of #TVGospelTime including the man who would be known as the King of Gospel, the Rev James Cleveland, who also was one of the hosts on the show with a rotating host system
Let's explore a bit about modern Western music. What is it that we hear? A good measure of the types of music is the sales of the music, which correlates well with what we hear say on the radio. This is Statista split of US music sold by genre, in year 2018
Out of that chart, a massive 83% are genres of music that were born in the USA, or are evolutions of music, that was born in the USA. So 5 out of any 6 songs you might hear (in the Western world) is music of a STYLE that was invented in America. The next highest group is Latin
Look at the numbers, Latin style music is only 9.4%. The modern style of Stage and Screen music is American too, but its ORIGINS are from Europe, that legacy of live theater. It has 2.7%. Classical music 1%. And all rest of world combined, is just 1.5% of music sold in USA..
