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spirituals

music genre created by generations of African-Americans
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spirituals

Summary

spirituals is a music genre[1]. spirituals draws 1,368 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #284 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • spirituals's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • spirituals is a type of African-American music[4].
  • spirituals is a type of American folk music[5].
  • spirituals is a type of Christian music[6].
  • spirituals's country of origin is recorded as United States[7].
  • 1790 marks the founding of spirituals[8].
  • spirituals's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Spirituals[9].
  • spirituals's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10].
  • spirituals's different from is recorded as spiritual director[11].
  • spirituals's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject African diaspora[12].

Body

Definition and Type

spirituals's instance of is recorded as music genre[3]. Recorded subclass of include African-American music[4], American folk music[5], and Christian music[6].

Origins

1790 marks the founding of spirituals[8].

Why It Matters

spirituals draws 1,368 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #284 of 1,946).[2] spirituals has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] spirituals is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → u0001962-spiritualy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: u0001962-spiritualy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
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