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Jan 31, 2024 · The Rev. Dr. Dwight Andrews appears in “Gospel,” the latest docuseries from Dr. Henry Louis Gates, which airs on PBS from Feb. 12-13. Andrews is a Music Theory and African American Music professor at Emory University and senior pastor at First Congregational Church UCC, both in Atlanta. (Courtesy of PBS “The Black Church”)
Henry Jackson is one of today’s leading gospel singers, songwriters, and musicians. He has traveled nationally and internationally spreading the gospel in song. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Henry was raised in the music rich bay area city of San Francisco, California. Henry was drawn to this vibrant music called “gospel” at a very early age. He began his formal music training at the age...
The Golden Age of Gospel. S1 E2 - 53m 1s. Starting in the 1940s, GOSPEL’s hour 2 explores the Golden Age of Gospel — the dramatic explosion of Black sacred music and the segregated highways of the American South — through the successful careers of Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. As the lines between the sacred and secular ...
Mar 14, 2024 · Burford sees his participation in Gospel as “kind of a capstone” on his past scholarship, particularly his work on influential gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, the subject of his award-winning 2018 book Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field. Burford met Gates while on sabbatical from Reed.
The Williams Brothers is an American traditional black gospel music group from Jackson, Mississippi, they were formed in 1960 by Leon "Pop" Williams, who was the Williams' father, and early on the Williams' brother Frank Douglas was a member. At its inception, The group consisted of three brothers, Doug Williams, Leonard Williams, Melvin ...
Jul 20, 2022 · “I was going through my grandmother’s records — I was a kid in East Orange — and I happened to put on a Mahalia Jackson record. Her greatest hits album.” This was a record player, the record was an actual disk, made of vinyl, and Mahalia Jackson was a hugely popular, enormously influential gospel singer who had died in 1972.
Feb 12, 2024 · Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s ‘Gospel’ Is a Celebratory Account of the Faith-Based Music’s History: TV Review. Courtesy of McGee Media. A companion series to the 2021 docuseries, “The ...
