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Traditional Gospel

Traditional Gospel is gospel music that is essentially Southern in origin and performed by large, soulful choirs, which in themselves are natural extensions of the rehearsed and arranged community choirs of the southern churches, both black and white. The term is also applied to the material done by smaller gospel vocal quartets who share the same church roots, or lead voice singers like Mahalia Jackson, all of whom draw from the same well. The uniting theme is that the material performed is straight out of the churches with little deliberate pop sheen, and could have come easily from any Sunday morning service in the past century.