Who Sing Go tell it on the mountain?

Cedarmont Kids
Go Tell It on the Mountain/Artists

What is the meaning of Go Tell It on the Mountain?

The title is a reference to the gospel song “Go Tell It On the Mountain,” a popular Christmas carol because its lyrics refer to Jesus Christ’s birth. The song’s message is that the Christian message (“that Jesus Christ is born”) should be spread everywhere, shouted from the mountaintops.

Where did the song Go Tell It on the Mountain originate?

Like many spirituals and folk songs, “Go Tell It on the Mountain” has a pretty murky origin. The song likely dates back to the mid-19th century, but spirituals were passed from plantation to plantation orally, disseminating the songs without sheet music, let alone recordings, making them difficult to date accurately.

Who wrote Go tell on the mountain?

James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain/Authors

Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes, an intelligent teenager in 1930s Harlem, and his relationship with his family and his church.

Why was Go Tell It on the Mountain banned?

Why: Challenged in Hudson Falls, NY (1994) and Prince William County, VA (1988) for various reasons including language, sexual themes, violence, and references to rape & degrading treatment of women.

Why was Go Tell It on the Mountain written?

“Go Tell It on the Mountain” was only his first attempt. Initially titled “Crying Holy,” “Go Tell It on the Mountain” was written after Baldwin gave up being a youth preacher and left the church to become a writer.

Is Go tell it on the mountain in the Bible?

2 Tim Lucas, “Go Tell It On the Mountain,” Luke 2:8.

What does the ending of Go tell it on the mountain mean?

At the end of James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, after a dusk-to-dawn prostration before God at the altar of his church, John, the fourteen-year-old protagonist, gives his soul to Christ. Go Tell It on the Mountain isn’t sparing in its critique of that old-time religion.

What is the style of the song Go tell it on the mountain?

It can be paired with this composer’s setting of Psalm 96, Today Is Born Our Savior (ed….Indexes.

How beautiful are the feet Isaiah?

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that sayeth unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!