I contribute to Wikipedia and I have a hard time communicating exactly what certain stations play now or did play. "Black gospel" redirects to "urban contemporary gospel", but they are NOT the same thing. I have proposed splitting up the two articles but I wouldn't know how.
Most of the content in the "Urban contemporary gospel" article is about traditional black church music. In some parts of the country if you say "gospel" it refers to this music. Not correct, in my opinion. Where I live the word "gospel" refers to what we heard in church yesterday. We're all white, as so many Southern churches are, and one of our members sings alto with a group that came to sing for us yesterday. Four-part harmony with an acoustic guitar. And no, the guitar was not played rock-style or even folk-style. The term which must be used on Wikipedia to make the meaning clear is "Southern gospel". Some call it "quartet music".
I was rewinding a tape last night and Ernest Angley introduced a "gospel" group that performs on his show that he said has many fans. Although some of the people were white, they were definitely singing black church music. I'm curious about the nature of the harmony in that style of music. It's different from Southern gospel harmony.
Any help in improving the Wikipedia articles about black gospel music would be appreciated. I'm certainly no expert. We sing music that would be categorized as classical or Southern gospel, and occasionally African-American spirituals, as they have to be called now in order to be politically correct.
My country legends statrion is on the same freqency with one of these black gospel stations. They play all kinds of music. Some sounds like black church music, and some sounds like urban adult contemporary music with Christian lyrics, and some sounds like urban contemporary music. I don't think my country station is going to improve its signal. Besides, another station that interferes with the signal plays "beautiful music". So please forgive me when I say I don't care for yowling that passes for music. That's the taste of some people, and I understand, but it's not mine.
