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 ...

Every Sunday morning since July 1998, I've been a volunteer host on KUNM.org in Albuquerque, N.M., and a show called Train to Glory. Each week, I play three hours of national and local gospel ...

On March 11, there will be a new Hank Williams record for country fans to enjoy. Williams, who is one of country music’s biggest legends, is known for his hits like “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “Hey ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past two decades, Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive has collected and digitized more than 60,000 gospel songs, making it one of the largest digital gospel collections in the world. The ...

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