Black Gospel Music originated in Scotland?

[sav]

I actually just returned from NYC, where I was attending the biennial ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) Convention. This Yale professor was present and I chatted with him about this topic. In short, he has some very interesting research on it, and it's certainly plausible...I think that several other ethnomusicologists are now looking into it.

[minimalistix]

I wouldn't be surprised by that.

Gospel, and country for that matter, were both heavily influenced by Scots, and obviously African slaves.

Let me remember to you as well a character on a book called "The Blues against the Greys" by the canadian author William Camus (1923-...). The character is a black boy called Joshua Ponce de León (and that's a spanish surname!), that gets listed on the Union Army on the Secession American War, and as he claims for his scottish origins, he becomes a kilted piper on a highland regiment. It's an interesting coincidence, don't u think?

Yeah, that's one thing I never thought about until I read some history on the civil war concerning the make up of the soldier regiments. It was interesting to see that Scots and Irish units fought on both sides.