Past Event: “Eternal Gain”: A Symposium on Dr. Mattie Moss Clark and the Clark Sisters

The Clark sisters

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Music and the Black Church Clark Family headshots

Event description: 

A daylong meditation on the distinctive musical, spiritual, and cultural contributions of Dr. Clark and the Clark Sisters, to include presentations by: Ambre Dromgoole, Dr. Almeda Wright, Dr. Ashon Crawley, Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Dr. Deborah Smith Pollard, Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman, Dr. Guthrie Ramsey, Dr. Henry Washington, Jr., Dr. Marla Frederick, and Dr. Todne Thomas.

Coinciding with the Clark Sisters’ Yale residency, the symposium’s presentations showed how the careers and legacies of Dr. Clark and the Clark Sisters illuminate a host of issues pertaining to the music(s) of the Black church, including gender, kinship, instrumentality, fashion, media, and the music industry.