Just to make a case for gospel—as with jazz, in the 70s, gospel was viewed as music your parents or grandparents listened to. It fell out of favor with the youth. But what was in favor with the youth at the time was funk & soul. Both jazz and gospel embraced these newer music genres to pull in the youth. Throughout the early-mid 1970s, both jazz and gospel became very funky and isn't that stodgy gospel your grandparents listened to.
I am not even religious, but some of the funkiest slabs of 70s gospel get as close as anything to try to convince me the power of "God."
And, of course, a lot of gospel also derives from ancestral African songs.
Just to make a case for gospel—as with jazz, in the 70s, gospel was viewed as music your parents or grandparents listened to. It fell out of favor with the youth. But what was in favor with the youth at the time was funk & soul. Both jazz and gospel embraced these newer music genres to pull in the youth. Throughout the early-mid 1970s, both jazz and gospel became very funky and isn't that stodgy gospel your grandparents listened to.
I am not even religious, but some of the funkiest slabs of 70s gospel get as close as anything to try to convince me the power of "God."
And, of course, a lot of gospel also derives from ancestral African songs.