Gospel Music

Guest: Robert Darden is a professor in the department on Journalism, Public Relations and New Media in Baylor University’s College of Arts & Sciences.  He is director of Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project.  A distinctly American musical legacy is quickly disappearing – gospel on vinyl. Baylor University’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project has embarked on the world’s largest initiative to identify, acquire, digitize and catalogue the music – which will eventually find a permanent home in the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.