Wednesday, June 14, 2017
6:00 p.m. (Doors open at 5:30 p.m.)
$10 per person, Free for NHA Members
Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street
Join Baylor University Professor of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media Robert Darden as he discusses his two newest books Nothing But Love in God’s Water Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement and Nothing But Love in God’s Water Volume II: Black Sacred Music from Sit-In to Resurrection City.
Darden chronicles the history and role of music in the African American experience and tells the story of how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery and suppression. He reveals how music enabled the Civil Rights Movement to challenge the most powerful nation on the planet.
Darden is the founder of the Black Gospel Restoration Project (BGMRP) at Baylor University, the world’s largest initiative to identify, acquire, digitize, and make accessible fast-vanishing vinyl of gospel music from Gospel music’s Golden Age (1945-1970). The BGMRP provides the gospel music for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History & Culture.
Contact: Brianne Roth
Email: broth@nha.org
Phone: 508-228-1894 ext. 112
Location Details
Whaling Museum
13 Broad Street