I’ve had plenty of opportunity to get to know Robert Darden and Stephen Newby. Bob is a distinguished writer and teacher, and in our youth, we lived a few houses apart on 30th Street in Waco’s Castle Heights neighborhood. With…
Through it all: Baylor profs celebrate influence of Andrae Crouch
It has been 10 years since the death of Andraé Crouch. It has taken Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby nine of those years to create their biography on the life of groundbreaking gospel singer and composer. Those years…
Bridging racial divides with Black gospel music
Note: This is the fourth in a five-part series on the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program made possible by generous funding from the Prichard Family Foundation. Black gospel music has a cross-cultural appeal that can help bridge racial divides…
Around the world and back: The enduring influence of Black gospel music
Note: This is the second in a five-part series on the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program made possible by generous funding from the Prichard Family Foundation. The influence of Black gospel music on other genres makes it ripe for…
Black Gospel Music Preservation Program: Securing the legacy of Black Gospel music
Note: This is the first in a five-part series on the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program made possible by generous funding from the Prichard Family Foundation. Already the largest resource of its type in the world, the Black Gospel…
Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Preservation Program names new leader
A music professor, composer and minister of music has been named the inaugural holder of the Lev H. Prichard III Chair in the Study of Black Worship at Baylor University. Stephen Newby will continue and expand the work begun by…