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Black gospel music is primarily a marketing term used to help potential buyers distinguish it from other forms of Christian music, such as contemporary Christian music or Christian rock and Southern gospel (a merger of barbershop quartet style harmony and country instrumentation, see also Southern Gospel Music Association), which have similar lyrical form but very different musical styling.

'Black' gospel is intended to be descriptive rather than pejorative, since the majority of its performers are African-American, although at times it may appear to have a racist tinge in cases where performers who are of other races (Jon Gibson is one example) may not be labelled black gospel though his music has more in common stylistically with someone like Edwin Hawkins than Michael W. Smith. Whilst the majority of performers of this genre of Gospel Music are African-Americans it is certainly not a style of music exclusive to any racial group or region of the world today. Indeed in Australia choirs of predominantly Australian-born singers with a largely Anglo-Celtic background, such as The Elementals and Jonah & The Whalers have embraced this style of Gospel Music.

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External links

• Edwin Hawkins

See also

• Black Gospel Music
• Black Gospel Music from gospel writers

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• Gospel music
• African American culture