The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53920   Message #2539327
Posted By: Azizi
13-Jan-09 - 11:26 PM
Thread Name: Jerry R's 'Black/White Gospel Workshop
Subject: RE: Jerry R's 'Black/White Gospel Workshop
For some reason, at the end of hyperlinked video of the Howard university video choir singing "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel", other videos of African American spiritual follow. I don't know how that happened.

One video is a choir made up of White singers:

Auburn University Concert Choir - Didn't My Lord Deliver Dan

Unlike the Nashville video, it didn't seem to me that the Auburn University choir was trying to sing this song in "a Black voice".
I didn't like their arrangement, but that's just me. It's a matter of taste, which to a large extent is developed and reinforced by cultural conditioning.

Another video that somehow followed the Auburn University video through that Howard University link, is Wilmington Chester Mass Choir- Ride On King Jesus

I like this video the best of all those whose links I shared in these posts {though the sound clip used by the Alvin Ailey dancers is a tie}. Imo, the Wilmington Chester Mass Choir is a good example of African American singing spirituals {although I personally didn't like the video after 4:44 minutes.

As to any other videos that follow this one, {how??} I'll just let them speak for themselves.