A thread you didn’t ask for: Black Pentecostal music was also Protest music....

So BOOM...Pentecostalism was more than skirts, shouting, and sending folks to hell. They also participated in the Black fight for freedom and it, often, came out in their music. For example: Rev. Louis Overstreet “Black, but Proud” (1969).

Some traditional Pentecostal theology focused on God burning up ALL OF THIS SH*T with fire (which was also a social critique/analysis). Which is why you’d hear a lot of them saying, “this world is not my home”.
Mattie B. Poole “Come on in the Ark (it’s gonna rain [fire])”

Shirley Caesar “Loose That Man (and let him go)” (1969). A lot of Black Pentecostal songs/congregationals had multiple interpretations. Think, Spiritual “loosing” and physical “loosing” (imprisonment & other forms of carcerality).

“Don’t care where you bury my body (my soul belongs to God)”. Speaks for itself.....
ALSO [however], there’s another song that says “my whole body belongs to God”.

“Don’t you let nobody turn you around (keep on traveling)”
Bishop Ronald E. Brown (1998)

Very Civil Rights Movement-ish....In the same lane as “Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ‘round”.

So, picture it: Memphis, World War 1 & 2, Church of God in Christ...Bishop C.H. Mason (founder) discourages church members from enlisting in the draft (many argue he wrote this song...can’t be proved). “I’m a Soldier in the Army of the Lord” is birthed as a response to the wars.

The “Yes, Lord” song can be heard in ANY COGIC church, in particular. Most argue Bishop C.H. Mason composed it, others argue Arenia Mallory did. “Yes, Lord” is a response and (often) an act of protest.

Honorable mention: Pentecostal prayer. Prayer in/as music doesn’t solely belong to Pentecostals. HOWEVER, Pentecostals commonly use music & prayer as protest. Think, “God, if it be your will.....” Vs. “God, Do....RIGHT NOW”