Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The rich history of gospel in LA
“How Sweet the Sound,” a new exhibit at the California African American Museum, charts how LA has been an epicenter of gospel.
By Madeleine Brand • • 42m Listen“How Sweet the Sound,” a new exhibit at the California African American Museum, charts how LA has been an epicenter of gospel. It takes visitors from the establishment of LA’s first black church by a former slave in 1872, through the Golden Age of Gospel, to today.
Images of the Clara Ward singers and the Victory Baptist Choir courtesy of CAAM.
