As I mentioned in my first post, initially anyway, the discussion in this thread is meant to be continuation of the discussion that Mudcatter blind will and I and others were having in the "Gospel Music is Gaelic" thread.

Here's a link to Blind Will's initial post to that thread:

Blind Will: the development of Black American religious music

And here are links to two comments I made to him in response to his first post:

Azizi: Call & Response patterns in gospel music

Azizi: Caribbean music's influence on African American gospel