I woke up this mornin with my mind stayed on-Black Gospel.*

Early this morning I admitted in the Gospel music is Gaelic? UK TV 21 Mar 05 thread that the discussion I was having with several others was broader than the question and subject of that thread. I also wrote that I felt that there might be archived threads that were better suited to this general discussion-and if not, because I had recently started a number of threads, someone-other than me-should start such a thread.

This morning I used the Mudcat Search engine to look for archived threads about gospel music that-imo- could be broad enough to include the origins/sources of Black gospel as well as the styles of Black gospel as well as examples of gospel music.

Btw, by "Black Gospel" I mean African American Gospel. But it would be interesting to read & exchange information about the roots of and traditional/contemporary examples of gospel from the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America etc. It would also be interesting to read & exchange information about non-Black gospel-though I suppose on this thread that might be on a compare & contrast basis.

While I found a number of archives threads, I didn't find one that I considered to be broad enough for the type of discussion I had been having and want to continue.

So here I am-starting a thread on this subject.

In doing so, I believe I am doing what the spirit moves me to do.
And as you know-you gotta move when the spirit says move*

*Though these lyrical references are probably spirituals and not gospel, I think they still fit where I'm comin from.

All of this to say that I extend the right hand of fellowship to you-as we do in my home church, and invite you to join in this discussion.