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Professor of Music Mark Burford sits at a classroom table holding a book titled "Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought"

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The spiritual and artistic roots of gospel music

Mark Burford, Reed's R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music, is featured in GOSPEL, the history series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., that explores the origin story of Black spirituality through sermon and song.

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