Get Happy (gospel music)
Get Happy is a term used in the African American Gospel Music tradition, that refers to the experience of receiving the Holy Spirit during a Church service, usually involving ecstatic singing, or during prayer, or spontaneously.
Accounts of nineteenth century African American slave spirituality use the term, as recorded in the book God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves.
One of the early nineteenth century traditional 'Negro Spirituals' to use the phrase, is the following:For other examples of such gospel music see the following:
