Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beauty of what DuBois deftly called the "Sorrow Songs"--the Negro Spirituals. The Singer of "My Lord, What A Morning" matched Marian Anderson at her best, and the beautifully disciplined improvisation on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"--boldly folding over the classical Spiritual rendition with the classical or high-style Gospel mode--was something to behold...
Considering Harvard's origins, this new wrinkle should be no surprise. This university began, in the misty days of our colonial past by training ministers to spread the gospel in the wilderness. So it is only right that it should row prepare them to spread the new gospel of pop culture, with folks like Beavis and Butt-head as their animated messiahs...
Although the riff follows the basic disco patterns, the lead vocalist's solo foreshadows early '80s pop and gospel music. "We are Family" carries you into a disco paradiso of warm, mellow lava lamps, hot incense, disco togetherness, and the aura of love...
...switch to the left ear. Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...
...religious right merely wants a place at the table. To followers in Charleston, South Carolina, not long ago, he described the dimension of that place: "Our ambition is to be larger and more effective than both political parties combined." That is no recent epiphany; to Reed, it is the gospel...