During the early parts of the twentieth century gospel, and blues was becoming very popular music in the southern states. Generally, African- American used this from of music to create forms of field cries, moaning, and hollers. Some of the women that used this form of music were Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. They would typically use blues to communicate to other slaves that were trying to escape slavery. Some of the gospel leaders in the twentieth century were Mahalia Jackson, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Gospel music was a form of music to uphold people spiritual need, and women took a big part of that. After reading the chapter I recognized some of the women that was mention in the book such as Bessie Smith, and Gertrude “ma” Rainey.
