NHA Hosts Author Robert Darden on June 14

NANTUCKET – The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) will be hosting author Robert Darden for a lecture entitled “Gospel Music and the African American Experience” on Wednesday, June 14 at 6 P.M. at the Whaling Museum.

Darden will chronicle the history and role of music in the African American experience and will comment on how composing songs and singing them helped African Americans endure slavery and suppression.

Robert Darden is Professor of Journalism, Public Relations, and New Media at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

He is the founder of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project at Baylor University, the world’s largest initiative to identify, acquire, digitize, categorize, and eventually make accessible fast-vanishing vinyls of music from gospel’s Golden Age.

The BGMRP provides the gospel music heard in the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.

Darden’s articles and essays have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times to the Oxford American.

In addition, Darden spent twenty years as senior editor for The Wittenburg Door and another fifteen years as Gospel Music Editor for Billboard Magazine.

Tickets for the lecture are free for NHA members and $10 for the general public.

For more information, go to nha.org.

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