"People who don't share my faith are incapable of being artistic"
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Replying to @TwinkMahBoi @XavierDLeau
no, there is a particular kind of art learned incidentally to the practice of my faith that has been artistically significant for years.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @XavierDLeau
Where is this significant outside of pop singers from the south?
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Replying to @TwinkMahBoi @XavierDLeau
Whitney, Jazmine, Jennifer Hudson, Patti, Teddy Pendergrass, Donny Hathaway, Etta James, R. Kelly...
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Replying to @csilverandgold @XavierDLeau
Sister Rosetta Tharpe invented Rock n Roll singing gospel music, Aretha Franklin invented contemporary singing from a gospel background...
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Replying to @csilverandgold @XavierDLeau
Ray Charles literally invented soul music by combining gospel music with pop and basically influenced everyone...
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Replying to @csilverandgold @XavierDLeau
not to mention alllllllllllllll the behind the scenes musicians and songwriters who you don't even know got their start in church.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @XavierDLeau
for instance, I know a guy who was an early writer/producer for Jill Scott who now works full time at a church
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Replying to @csilverandgold @XavierDLeau
I get how this whole argument can be insulting to non-christians, and certainly blackness is allowed to evolve past rigid Christianity.
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but you just cannot deny the primacy of the black Christian musical tradition in fueling American popular music.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @XavierDLeau
I didn't even get into spirituals! Do you want Porgy and Bess? Aaron Copland? Protest songs? Bob Dylan? It all goes back to spirituals.
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