It also houses important artifacts like recorded sermons, concert announcements and sheet music, to preserve the history of Black gospel culture. Now, thanks to a new grant, the archive will ...

He also formed the Pace Jubilee Singers, which was one of the first Black groups to record gospel music and perform ... who knew how to fully print sheet music using photo negatives and metal ...

His is the last black gospel music store still going in Illinois ... His firm has published and now sells sheet music, records, hymnals and music books. As a composer, Mr. Morris wrote more ...

The Black gospel music courses established by Karen ... and the need to memorize the music and lyrics rather than read sheet music. The latter, says Burke, is a skill that — once learned ...

It will rise from the site of the historic Pilgrim Baptist Church, where the “father of gospel music,” Thomas Andrew Dorsey, laid the foundation for a robust tradition of black sacred singing.

Meaning the evolution of Black choral music not only sculpted the Black spiritual experience, it passed down the tools needed to heal our bloodlines. “We have within the diaspora two very ...