What is happening to Black Sacred Music? The music for us to sing in church? I mean the music that captured the sound of our history, theology, and the tone of our struggle.
I’m wondering why has CCM replaced the sound of Gospel music and who is getting paid for the switch?
I’m wondering why has CCM replaced the sound of Gospel music and who is getting paid for the switch?
Are there no longer writers and composers indigenous to the Black Christian experience in America?
No new voices producing music that tells our story, envisions our victory, or inspires hope amid our struggle?
No new voices producing music that tells our story, envisions our victory, or inspires hope amid our struggle?
Will our sound be adapted and appropriated for majority cultures while our churches sing to the tune of Hillsong-ish bands?
I don’t long for the good ole days of James Cleveland, but I sense that the sound that brought us over is missing.
I don’t long for the good ole days of James Cleveland, but I sense that the sound that brought us over is missing.
By the time we realize it’s value, it may be too late. Our music, like our theology and our preaching, remains a salvific instrument bent toward freedom.
If we lose the sound of Black Sacred Music our witness is at risk.
Our captors required of us a song and we sound like them.
If we lose the sound of Black Sacred Music our witness is at risk.
Our captors required of us a song and we sound like them.
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