Katy Perry is getting a major career honor at tonight’s MTV VMAs: the Video Vanguard Award. The singer chose a look to ...

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So much is going on in the world, a lot of sad things and bad things but God is love and that’s what we represent today,” ...

A range of stars from the stage, screen and sport has gathered to pay tribute to former President Jimmy Carter ahead of his ...

David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York ... unrecognized and without the financial rewards reaped by the white rockers they influenced. Among the blues greats who appeared ...

The gospel hip-hop and rap festival known as the Lyrics and Bars Fest returns this month, and according to event coordinator ...

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Them Dirty Roses mix Southern rock, country, metal, and gospel on ambitious EP project 'Lost in the Valley of Hate and Love.' ...

Shape note singing became a foundation for White gospel music, which in turn influenced country and bluegrass. While New England Puritans and Anglicans stayed close to accepted patterns of intoning ...

On the religious side, in gospel music, there were some recordings that ... Griggs, saw the flood as a metaphor of black-white cooperation, the people trying to shore up the levees, something ...

White rural entertainers began performing on ... Handy Square in Memphis. Gospel music is rooted in spirituals, blues, shape-note songs, ragtime, and the urban church revival It emerged in the ...