2021: Lord, Don't Move The Mountain
The 9th Annual Symposium on the Black Gospel Music Tradition
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
Ethnomusicology Professor, The Juilliard School
Assistant Professor of Music, University of Rochester;
Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
Assistant Professor of Music, Harvard University
Associate Professor of Music,
Baylor University
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
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.