The history and influence of Black gospel music is being revitalized in Louisville through a one-of-a-kind cultural preservation initiative known as I'm Glad About It: The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville, 1958-1981.
The Dali-esque artist who painted nearly 200 Savoy Records album covers during the 1960s--the majority for the label's gospel series--and signed his work "Harvey" with no surname, has been somewhat of a mystery to record collectors. On David Peterkofsky's For Keeps podcast, Robbie Rogers shines a light on who Harvey [...]
Baylor University art professor Terry Roller and his Art 4331 students took on a special assignment: Design custom album jackets for 45 rpm discs in Baylor's Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, overseen by Professor Robert Darden. The students in Art 4331 came up with some very creative concepts - arguably [...]
When Art Rupe of Specialty Records recorded the July 22, 1955, gospel program at Los Angeles's Shrine Auditorium, he was making history. It would be the first multi-artist gospel program to be recorded, and one of the most significant aural examples of live gospel music during its golden age. Artists [...]
JGM Editor-in-Chief Bob Marovich was interviewed for this podcast on gospel music and the Civil Rights movement. Professor Robert Darden of Baylor University, Dwandalyn Reese of the Smithsonian Institution, and Professor Birgitta Johnson of the University of South Carolina School of Music are also interviewed for this podcast, part of [...]
Nothing But Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Robert Darden Penn State University Press (224 pages) By Bob Marovich “A singing army is a winning army, and a singing labor movement cannot be defeated.” So proclaimed labor leader [...]
By Bob Marovich Michael Castellini made ample use of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project at Baylor University, and the counsel of gospel music historian Professor Robert Darden, to write his Master's thesis on gospel music and the civil rights movement. In "Sit In, Stand Up and Sing Out!: Black [...]
It's an honor to be part of this amazing African American sacred music symposium. It is said to be the first such gathering of scholars around this single subject since the Smithsonian program honoring the late Pearl Williams-Jones in 1993. Black gospel scholar to demonstrate music’s variety at Baylor symposium - [...]
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