African rhythms, ideas of sin & the Hammond organ: A brief history of gospel music’s evolution https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/021925_gospel_evolution_op/african-rhythms-ideas-sin-hammond-organ-brief-history-gospel-musics-evolution/
For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – helped forge a common musical consciousness, and the melding of African rhythmic ideas with Western musical ideas laid the foundation for a genre of African-American music, in particular spirituals and, later, gospel songs.
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