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Date Posted : 3/27/2017 9:11:21 AM
Posted by : cyndy.hines@ColoradoCollege.edu
Subject : Riley Scholars Lecture Series Presents: Charrise Barron

Abstract :

Riley Scholars Lecture Series presents Charrise Barron, Department of 
Music

Title:  GREAT GOD, GOD'S FRIENDS, AND THE GLOBAL DISCOURSES OF 
CONTEMPORARY PRAISE AND WORSHIP MUSIC

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Bemis Lounge 1200-100pm

Full Message :

Riley Scholars Lecture Series presents Felicia Chavez, Departments of 
English and Film & Media

Monday, April 3, 2017 Bemis Lounge 1200-100pm

Title:  DIGITAL STORYTELLING (OR WHY TECHNOLOGY HAS RUINED EVERYTHING)

This presentation explores the music and performance of gospel artists 
Israel Houghton and Donnie McClurkin in order to highlight shifts toward 
post-racial religious expression in praise and worship music among black 
gospel artists. Few gospel artists traverse (white) Christian music and 
(black) gospel music boundaries as effortlessly as Israel Houghton. While 
Israel Houghton’s music can be placed squarely in the trajectory of black 
gospel music history, the language of his lyrics calls for a global 
religiosity that downplays race and class. This presentation examines the 
lyrics of representative works from Israel Houghton’s praise and worship 
repertoire to reveal a theology that emphasizes friendship with God and 
transcendence of racial constructs. Donnie McClurkin is an internationally 
recognized gospel singer who has been a fixture on Christian television 
network TBN. Like Houghton, McClurkin emphasizes a singular, universal 
Christian identity in his rhetoric and music. Houghton and McCurkin’s
post-racial discourses point to the black gospel industry’s current emphasis 
on crossing over to white Christian and mainstream markets, and some 
churches’ use of praise and worship music as a means to attract and retain 
racially diverse congregations.