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Robert Darden featured in documentary

Our own Robert Darden is part of the following documentary. Please click to view the video. Looking for Rare Gospel Vinyl

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New Interviews

Please see http://www.baylor.edu/lib/gospel for some interviews of Robert Darden and Bob Marovich about the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project.

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Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music & Black Gospel...

Amanda Harlan presented at the Music Library Association Annual Meeting, Wednesday, March 24th. She did a comparison of the metadata workflow between two major digital music collections at Baylor...

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Getting to Know the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project (BGMRP)

One of our bigger projects here at the Digitization Projects Group is the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project (BGMRP). Established in 2008, it seeks to preserve America’s proud tradition of black...

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A Sisyphean* Task, An Unending Passion: “A Life’s Work” and Its Connection to...

Back in 2010, a crew of professional documentary filmmakers visited the Digitization Projects Group. They were on a mission: to interview and film the team of professionals working on the Black Gospel...

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An Update on the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project

All good things require patience, as the Evangelistic Soul Seekers well knew, given the title of this ca. 1965 track. If you’ve been reading the local newspapers of late – the Waco Tribune-Herald and...

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This Train is Bound for D.C.: The Smithsonian-Baylor Digital Projects Group...

  Our thoughts on today’s news, as captured by this album from The Trumpets of Jericho. Some big news regarding the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project was made official this weekend via the social...

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Stepping on Board with The Mighty Wonders of Aquasco, Maryland

Since the early days of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, we’ve been intrigued by a version of “Old Ship of Zion” by the Mighty Wonders of Aquasco, Maryland. Intrigued, because it’s a...

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Unveiling the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project’s “Wall of Honor”

Any project as ambitious as our Black Gospel Music Restoration Project cannot happen in a vacuum, nor can it succeed without the willing hands and open hearts of a broad range of supporters, and after...

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