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Article: Gospel music wins stamp of approval from Postal Service.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- July 22, 1998
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If you looked it up in your Funk & Wagnalls, as I did last week, you would be told that gospel music emerged about 1870 and that it first had a ``predominantly white style,'' whatever that means.
You would also be informed that its roots were in ``Sunday school hymns'' and ``camp meeting spirituals.''
It's always risky trying to put a birth date on an art form. But if you've ever heard a song sung by Mahalia Jackson, Roberta Martin, ``Sister'' Rosetta Tharpe or Clara Ward _ four women whose images now grace newly released 32-cent American stamps _ you would know that gospel is a descendant of sounds that were born much earlier than the 19th ...
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... ... The U.S. Postal Service's most extensive ... Post Office in Fort Worth, Texas, which ... square-foot Fort Worth station cost ... construction for the Postal Service's Western region ... Similar to the Fort Worth post office ...
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