![\"Black](\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blackgospel-jan14.jpg\" "\\"blackgospel-jan14\\"")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
What began with one Baylor professor’s efforts to save black gospel music recordings before they disappeared is now going to be a part of the Smithsonian Institution<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Black Gospel Music Restoration Project<\/a> — officially launched in 2008 by Baylor professor Robert Darden, and managed and maintained by the Baylor Libraries’ Digital Projects Group —\u00a0will become a permanent feature of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a> when it opens on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 2015.<\/p>\n [LISTEN to a Voice of America interview with Darden<\/a>]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n As Darden discovered during research for his book People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music<\/a><\/em>, some historic black gospel recordings have made their way to CD, but many more — particularly those by lesser known performers — remain solely on old 45- and 78-rpm albums. Baylor’s Black Gospel project seeks to find and digitize such recordings, to preserve both their spiritual and cultural contributions for posterity.<\/p>\n At the Smithsonian, the collection will be part of the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s\u00a0Musical Crossroads exhibition<\/a>, helping tell the story of African-American music from the arrival of the first Africans in America through the present. If you can’t wait until 2015, a sampling of Baylor’s collection is available now for free streaming and download on iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Baylor preservationists!<\/p>\n You might also like:<\/em><\/strong> What began with one Baylor professor’s efforts to save black gospel music recordings before they disappeared is now going to be a part of the Smithsonian Institution. The Black Gospel Music Restoration Project — officially launched in 2008 by Baylor professor Robert Darden, and managed and maintained by the Baylor Libraries’ Digital Projects Group —\u00a0will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*\u00a0Black Gospel Music Restoration Project prof recognized for teaching, research and service<\/a>\u00a0(May 2011)<\/em>
\n*\u00a0Baylor\u2019s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project featured on iTunes U front page<\/a>\u00a0(Feb. 2010)<\/em>
\n*\u00a0Ashley Cleveland earns Grammy nomination for album inspired by Baylor gospel music project<\/a>\u00a0(Dec. 2009)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"