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'People Get Ready' Tracks Black Gospel Music

Robert Darden, former gospel music editor for Billboard magazine — and now an assistant professor of English at Baylor University — chronicles the genre in his book People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music.

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Tony Cox has built a distinguished career in broadcast journalism that spans three decades in television and radio.