Meet Baylor’s first Prichard Chair in the Study of Black Worship
…M ’98) have taken the baton from recently retired program founder Robert Dard*]}*en (BSED ’76). Dard*]}*en saw the project grow from a dusty library basement at Baylor all the way to the Smithsonian, and now Newby and Stuhr aim to lead the BGMPP into new places through research, scholarship and relationships. Among Newby’s priorities are digitizing the “next generation” of Black gospel music. The “golden age” of gospel (generally considered to be the 1940…