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    • 2023: My Tribute: The Life and Legacy of Andrae Crouch
    • 2022: Go Tell It on the Mountain
    • 2021: Lord, Don't Move The Mountain
    • 2020: Gospel Music in Word and Song
    • 2019: Lord, Make Me An Instrument
    • 2018: She Sang Freedom with Dr. Tammy Kernoldle
    • 2017: Singing the Sermon: When the Message and Music Matter
    • 2016: Dr. Guthrie Ramsey, Scholar in Residence
    • 2015-2016: Lift Every Voice and Sing
    • 2014: Marching to Zion - Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music
    • 2013: Marching to Zion - Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music
  • Other Past Pruit Symposia
    • 2009: Religion, Politics and Society: The Baptist Contribution
      • Plenary Speakers
      • Session Topics
    • 2005: Global Christianity: Challenging Modernity and the West
    • 2004: Slavery, Oppression, and Prejudice: Ancient Roots and Modern Implications
    • 2003: The Schooled Heart: Moral Formation in American Higher Education
    • 2002: Christianity and Economics: Integrating Faith and Learning in Economic Scholarship
    • 2001: Celebrating Augustine's Confessions: Reading Augustine for the New Millenium
    • 2000: Interpreting Christian Art
    • 1999: Cultivating Citizens: Soulcraft and Citizenship in Contemporary America
Baylor BU Pruit Symposium Black Gospel Symposia 2021: Lord, Don't Move The Mountain
  • 2023: My Tribute: The Life and Legacy of Andrae Crouch
  • 2022: Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • 2021: Lord, Don't Move The Mountain
  • 2020: Gospel Music in Word and Song
  • 2019: Lord, Make Me An Instrument
  • 2018: She Sang Freedom with Dr. Tammy Kernoldle
  • 2017: Singing the Sermon: When the Message and Music Matter
  • 2016: Dr. Guthrie Ramsey, Scholar in Residence
  • 2015-2016: Lift Every Voice and Sing
  • 2014: Marching to Zion - Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music
  • 2013: Marching to Zion - Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music

2021: Lord, Don't Move The Mountain

The 9th Annual Symposium on the Black Gospel Music Tradition

2021: Lord, Don't Move The Mountain

Lord, Don’t Move The Mountain!
Women’s Voices in Gospel Songs and Hymns

Doris Akers, Lucie Campbell, and Fanny Crosby

 

Opening Panel Discussion

“On Themes of Influence, Innovation, and Invocation”
Thursday, February 25 - 3:30 p.m. CST

Dr. Fredara Hadley

Ethnomusicology Professor, The Juilliard School

Biography
Dr. Fredara Hadley

Assistant Professor of Music, University of Rochester;
Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music

Biography
Rev. Dr. Braxton Shelley

Assistant Professor of Music, Harvard University

Biography
Dr. Horace Maxile
Moderator

Associate Professor of Music,
Baylor University

Biography

Keynote Address


"Something Within"

Tracing a Womanist Legacy of Self-Possession and Musical Sisterhood
in the Life of Gospel Foremother Lucie E. Campbell

Dr. Alisha Lola Jones
Biography
Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
Tuesday, March 2 - 3:30 pm CST

 

Closing Address

Dr. Mellonee V. Burnim


The Song-Sermon as Signature Shirley Caesar
Dr. Mellonee V. Burnim

Biography
Professor Emerita, Ethnomusicology, Indiana University;
Visiting Professor of Ethnomusicology, Yale University (Spring 2021)
Tuesday, March 9 - 3:30 pm CST

The closing keynote video is not available.

Each year the Pruit Memorial Symposium is made possible by the Pruit Memorial Symposium Endowment that was established in 1996 by Ella Wall Prichard and the late Lev H. Prichard III of Corpus Christi in memory of Helen Pruit Matthews and her brothers, Dr. Lee Tinkle Pruit and William Wall Pruit.

Baylor BU Pruit Symposium Black Gospel Symposia 2021: Lord, Don't Move The Mountain
  • About
    Back
    • Pruit Memorial Symposium Committee
    • Pruit Memorial Symposium Production Team
  • Black Gospel Symposia
    Back
    • 2023: My Tribute: The Life and Legacy of Andrae Crouch
    • 2022: Go Tell It on the Mountain
    • 2021: Lord, Don't Move The Mountain
    • 2020: Gospel Music in Word and Song
    • 2019: Lord, Make Me An Instrument
    • 2018: She Sang Freedom with Dr. Tammy Kernoldle
    • 2017: Singing the Sermon: When the Message and Music Matter
    • 2016: Dr. Guthrie Ramsey, Scholar in Residence
    • 2015-2016: Lift Every Voice and Sing
    • 2014: Marching to Zion - Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music
    • 2013: Marching to Zion - Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music
  • Other Past Pruit Symposia
    Back
    • 2009: Religion, Politics and Society: The Baptist Contribution
      Back
      • Plenary Speakers
      • Session Topics
    • 2005: Global Christianity: Challenging Modernity and the West
    • 2004: Slavery, Oppression, and Prejudice: Ancient Roots and Modern Implications
    • 2003: The Schooled Heart: Moral Formation in American Higher Education
    • 2002: Christianity and Economics: Integrating Faith and Learning in Economic Scholarship
    • 2001: Celebrating Augustine's Confessions: Reading Augustine for the New Millenium
    • 2000: Interpreting Christian Art
    • 1999: Cultivating Citizens: Soulcraft and Citizenship in Contemporary America
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