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Spiritual (music)

A Spiritual is a African-American song with a religious text. Traditionally monophonic and a capella, these songs are antecedents of the blues. They began on Southern slave plantations as work songs[?], sometimes with hidden messages of rebellion and escape from the slaves' owners.



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