Mary Williams: Preserving Traditional Gospel

Last week, on my way to the UNITY Journalists of Color conference, I heard a snippet of this story on Mary Williams, who works to preserve traditional black gospel music not only through her performances, but also through a class she teaches at Duke University. Click this link to hear the whole thing.

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Gospel Gal Gets Behind the Mic

This Sunday morning (April 1, no fooling!), I'll be joining Friend of the Blog Bob Marovich during his monthly Gospel Memories broadcast. You can listen to the broadcast live this Sunday, April 1, from 3:00 - 7:30 a.m. Central Time US on Chicago's 88.7 WLUW, with a real-time webcast at www.wluw.org. I'll be there about 6:15-ish, with my radio voice and a bag of my best vinyl to share. In the meantime, check out a podcast segment of Bob's March program at gospelmemories.com.

UPDATE: The last hour and a half of Bob's April 1 program is now online. You can hear our conversation--and some of my good old gospel--including Harry Belafonte's very swingin' version of "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" (1957)--by checking out gospelmemories.com, then going to "Gospel Memories Program Archives." Our conversation is in the second of the two program snippets from the April 1 show. There's also a really great interview with L. Stanley Davis, one of the great scholars of gospel. Enjoy!

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