Welcome!
Welcome to the official blog of the Baylor University Black Gospel Music Restoration Project (BGMRP). Our goal is to provide you with a useful tool for finding information on the project, staying up-to-date on our progress, communicating with fellow gospel enthusiasts, and learning more about this important part of our cultural heritage.
Purpose of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project
The BGMRP is a two-year, grant funded project. The ultimate goal is to preserve and store a digital copy of the audio long term, and to provide standards-based discovery tools through an online interface into a full catalog of materials, along with 30-second samples of all tracks from the audio archive.
The BGMRP identifies, acquires, preserves, records and catalogues mainly 78s, 45s, LPs, and the various tape formats issued in the U.S and abroad during the 1945-1970 time period. However, the project will also digitally preserve any ephemera that may be of use to scholars, including PR photos, press packets, interviews, photographs and sheet music.
What to expect from this blog
As work on the BGMRP progresses, we hope to find many uses for this blog; however, some things to look for in the near future include:
- Updates on the status of the collection, including updated stats, information on newly received collections/loaned materials, etc.;
- Notes from Tony Tadey, our audio engineer, on the technical side of digitizing these often fragile materials;
- Photos of items received, BGMRP staff at work, and much more;
- Information for collectors, including how to loan/donate to the BGRMP;
- A system for adding your comments; and
- A forum where gospel enthusiasts can exchange information, give us tips on sources for materials, reminisce about their favorite gospel memories, and more.
Check back often for more posts, and please email us at librarywebmaster@baylor.edu with questions, comments, or things you think might make this blog more useful.
Thank you for your interest in the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. You can help us ensure the project’s success by becoming involved and spreading the word, so please feel free to pass along our URLs to one and all. You never know – someone you tell about the BGMRP may be the contact we need to preserve an irreplaceable piece of American cultural history!
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