User talk:Mdcassidy

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"Gospel Fusion"
Hi Mdcassidy. After your message on my talk page, I found your draft. Here are some preliminary thoughts.

The term "gospel fusion" is not an accepted genre or term, at least in the sources I've seen. Do you have a reliable published source supporting the assertion: "Gospel fusion is a phrase used to describe the melting pot gospel music has come to be"? Who specifically has used this phrase in this way?

Instead, the notion of "fusion" (style mixing/influence) with respect to gospel music is used more loosely in the literature and in a variety of ways. The influences are not in a one-way direction either. For example, "bluegrass-gospel" fuses bluegrass musical style with gospel lyrics. Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, and B.B. King mixed blues melodies with gospel vocal style and beat, but not the lyrics. On the other hand the gospel blues genre uses blues musical style with gospel lyrics. Christian country music, also known as "country gospel" applies both the musical and textual style of country music to Christian popular music. "gospel-jazz" fusion generally describes the influence of jazz on gospel music rather than the other way 'round.

You will need to focus the article much more, perhaps on the intersection of gospel music and other genres. You should start by consulting some authoritative sources which have extensive material on this general subject: Hope that helps. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:43, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music
 * Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music
 * From Blues to Rock: An Analytical History of Pop Music

Another possibility is to focus solely on the gospel-jazz nexus, i.e. Gospel jazz. That is a real term used in the literature and there's quite a bit of stuff on that. In addition to the books above, see: I see that Berklee even has a course on this subject. Perhaps there's useful material on the course reading list? Best, Voceditenore (talk) 13:52, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Kilgannon, Corey (7 April 2017). "Preaching the Gospel, Jazz Riffs and All". New York Times
 * These articles on the Journal of Gospel Music
 * Moon, Tom (12 March 2012). "Gospel Meets Jazz, With Unpredictable Results". National Public Radio