Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments

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Author and Baylor University professor Robert Darden tells stories - and plays recordings - from the Baylor University Libraries' Black Gospel Music Restoration Project in an on-going weekly series of two-minute segments. Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments explores the distinctly African-American sound of the "Golden Age of Gospel" (1945-1975). The series celebrates this fertile musical period in American history, presenting cultural snapshots that reveal the depth of a people, their community,...

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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - "No Cross, No Crown" by Brooklyn All Stars

Jan 18th, 2026 2:40 PM

The Brooklyn All Stars were New York’s best-known gospel group, singing hits like the slow and stately “No Cross, No Crown.”

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - "No Coward Soldiers" by The Caravans

Jan 11th, 2026 2:45 PM

The Caravans ruled the Gospel Highway in the 1950s and ‘60s with songs like the upbeat “No Coward Soldiers.”

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - "Jericho March" by Grace Emmanuel Singers

Jan 4th, 2026 2:35 PM

The music of Daddy Grace’s United House of Prayer for All People is an ecstatic rave-up, fueled by a dozen honking trombones!

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Blackberry Records

Dec 8th, 2025 3:43 PM

The Williams Family and the legendary Canton Spirituals combine for one of the funkiest Christmas songs of all time, “Down Home in Mississippi".

Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments - "I Can Feel Him" by The Rev. H.B. Crum and His Mighty Golden Keys

Nov 23rd, 2025 2:40 PM

The Rev. H.B. Crum and His Mighty Golden Keys, “I Can Feel Him” is an exciting example of gospel’s transition from traditional doo-wop harmonies to a more soulful sound.

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