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- 2017: Singing the Sermon: When the Message and Music Matter
- 2016: Dr. Guthrie Ramsey, Scholar in Residence
- 2014: Marching to Zion - Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music
- 2013: Marching to Zion - Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music
- 2009: Religion, Politics and Society: The Baptist Contribution
- 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
- 1998: The Christ-Haunted South
Pruit Symposium
She Sang Freedom featuring Dr. Tammy Kernodle
7 p.m. | February 8, 2018 | Bennett Auditorium
7 p.m. | February 8, 2018 | Bennett Auditorium
Dr. Tammy Kernodle, professor of musicology and pianist/vocalist, will take you on a musical tour of black women musicians who used music as a means of documenting and promoting the struggle for equality and social justice in America. Several freedom and protest songs will be experienced through live performance and storytelling of the various historical contexts that range from slavery, to the Civil Rights Movements, to the proliferation of the Black Power movement in the 1970s.
For her performance, Kernodle will sing the songs of Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples and Roberta Flack. Several freedom and protest songs will be experienced through live performance and stories.
This event is sponsored by the Pruit Memorial Symposium; American Studies; Communication Studies; Department of History; Department of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media; Black Gospel Music Restoration Project; College of Arts and Sciences; School of Music; and Truett Theological Seminary.