Music - Black Gospel Research

Welcome to the world of Black Gospel music, research, and teaching. This guide offers support for basic library research, recommendations for background research, discographies, primary sources, pedagogical tools, and more. 

At the heart of of Black Gospel music research at Baylor University is the Black Gospel Archive and Listening Center. With the help of passionate researchers, collectors, donors, and the staff of Baylor's Digital Collections team, this project successfully preserves Black Gospel recordings issued between the 1940s and the 1980s. Many recordings from the collection are available to stream through Baylor's Digital Collections.

This guide provides researchers and instructors with resources available here at Baylor and beyond. If you are new to this music - welcome to a rich history full of topics to explore. Whether you are interested in the history of the artists, theology, places, or the music itself, we have many resources here at Baylor to support your work.