Kip Lornell, a George Washington University ethnomusicologist, compiled a new collection for Smithsonian Folkways called Classic African American Gospel. He talks about the roots of Motown in gospel ...

Since Baylor's Black Gospel Music Restoration Project started in 2006, university librarians have digitized and archived 8,381 songs from thousands of records. Most are obscure records from the 1940s ...

The prestigious and expansive gospel music collection of Baylor University has just been recruited to be a part of the Smithsonian Institute, the world’s largest keeper of cultural artifacts and ...

Baylor associate professor Robert Darden shows a 16-inch gospel album to Dwandalyn Reece, music and performing arts curator of the Smithsonian Insitution's new National Museum of African-American ...

His thick shock of hair, black suit and underlying white shirt gave Robert Darden the look of a musical composer as he walked into Starbucks carrying the wood-handled umbrella that shielded him from ...

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