Songs of survival, defeat and hope swept through cotton fields in the antebellum south. Slaves used them to navigate a brutal ...

The African-American religious folk songs known as spirituals grew out of the slavery experience and the introduction of Christianity into slaves' lives. Though rooted in African musical tradition, ...

Primarily consists of original performance and interview audio recordings, audio outtake materials, and edited program audio tapes created by the Smithsonian Institution (SI) and National Public Radio ...

Margaret Bonds arranged over fifty African-American spirituals for various instruments, one of which is the five-minute piano work Troubled Water, based on the spiritual Wade in the Water.The context ...

A chilling spoken word film, inspired by the old negro spiritual 'Wade in the Water', told through the eyes of three men unveiling their struggle and fear of being a black man in America.