Not So Black and White: Music & The Black Church
Season 11 Episode 7 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Assistant Professor of African American Religious History, Jamil Drake talks about music and the bla
Yale Divinity School’s Assistant Professor of African American Religious History, Jamil Drake shares how music is influenced by the black church. Discover more at wfsu.org/nsbw
Local Routes is a local public television program presented by WFSU
Not So Black and White: Music & The Black Church
Season 11 Episode 7 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Yale Divinity School’s Assistant Professor of African American Religious History, Jamil Drake shares how music is influenced by the black church. Discover more at wfsu.org/nsbw
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipwhen we think about the 20th century and we think about today's music, you and I, we can't talk about jazz, we can't talk about the blues.
We certainly can't talk about the gospel blues.
We can't talk about Aretha Franklin.
We can't talk about C.L.
Franklin, our father.
We can't talk about Sam Cooke.
without connecting their voices, connecting their culture to African American.
Our black Protestantism.
I think that's an important point, you know, in terms of the imprint of black religion, even beyond black, black religion to the music that we listen to today, even if you and I are, even if you and I want to have a discussion about Motown, got to connect it back to a black church in interesting sorts of ways,
Local Routes is a local public television program presented by WFSU