(2001 - Present) New Millennium to Present

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to do the following:

Name the essential musicians and describe the three watershed moments that were important to the globalization of gospel music.
Name and write about countries outside of the United States where gospel music has taken a foothold.
Articulate the importance of Kurtis Blow to the dissemination and expansion of rap and hip-hop music into the church's liturgy.

Global Gospel Artists

Gospel Artists from Sweden

Gospel Artists from England

Gospel Artists from Germany

Gospel Artists from the African Continent

Gospel Choir in Poland

Gospel Choir in Spain

Gospel Choirs in Italy

Gospel Choirs in Japan

Kurtis Blow

Hip-hop is incredible. If you travel outside of the country, everybody is into hip-hop. We live in a hip-hop generation. Hip-hop is the number one music in the whole world.

Thomas A. Dorsey

I was always a person who could not be stepped on easily. When I realized how hard people were fighting the gospel idea, I was determined to carry the banner.