Black gospel
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Black gospel is primarily a marketing term used to help potential buyers distinguish it from other forms of Christian music, such as contemporary Christian music or Christian rock and Southern gospel (a merger of barbershop quartet style harmony and country instrumentation..see also Southern_Gospel_Music_Association), which have similar lyrical form but very different musical styling.
'Black' gospel is intended to be descriptive rather than pejorative, since the majority of its performers are African-American, although at times it may appear to have a racist tinge in cases where performers who are of other races (Jon_Gibson is one example) may not be labelled black gospel though his music has more in common stylistically with someone like Tramaine Hawkins than Michael W. Smith. Template:Music-genre-stub