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Black gospel music is a genre of African-American Christian music that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside ragtime, blues, and jazz. The sound tradition is rooted in the conversion of African slaves to Christianity, both during and after the trans-atlantic slave trade, which transformed musical stylings, with hymnology and their on-going search for freedom to create a new musical tradition, starting with work songs sung in the fields and, later, with religious songs sung in various church gatherings, later classified as Negro Spirituals, which shaped much of traditional Black gospel.
Bertie Caudill Dickens (1902–1994) was an old-time banjo player from the community of Ennice in Alleghany County, North Carolina. Dickens was born in Grayson County, Virginia, but lived most of her life in Ennice.
Earnest East was a fiddle, guitar, and banjo player. East began his music career as a member of the Camp Creek Boys, and later founded his own instrumental band which he called the Pine Ridge Boys in 1966. In 1969, the Pine Ridge Boys released their first album, titled "Old Time Mountain Music", on the County label. Their second album, "Stringband Music From Mt. Airy" was released in 1981 on the Heritage label.
Obadiah Hawthorne Carter was an American musician who was a member of the "5" Royales, an R & B group in the 1940s and 1950s.
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- ↑ "American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List 1990 (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
- ↑ "connie steadman | LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
- ↑ "Gunn Memorial Library presents Miss Connie B". The Caswell Messenger. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
- ↑ "North Carolina Heritage Award". ncarts.org. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
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