International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.

International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. Born of Negro field and work songs, spirituals, the blues, and church songs, gospel music has its origins in the black soul. Two composers who copyrighted songs in the early 1900s were Reverend Charles Albert Tindley (ca. 1856–1933) and Reverend Charles Price Jones (1865–1949). Reverend Thomas A. Dorsey (1899–1993), “the Father of Gospel,” coined the phrase “gospel music,” with altered scale degrees and intricate rhythm being what…