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Solis, Gabriel Magee, Gayle S Bashford, Christina Silvers, Michael 2023-08 application/pdf en text Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms The student, Emmanuel Stokes, accepted the attached license on 2023-05-31 at 13:37. The student, Emmanuel Stokes, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2023-05-31 at 13:38. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2023-06-06 at 08:43. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #19401 on 2023-12-04 at 16:59:51 Gospel College African American Sacred Music University Insider Outsider Gospel-centric Secularity Workshops Community What do college-aged participants stand to gain from participating in gospel choirs on college and university campuses? Why do they even bother to participate? These questions drive this ethnographic study. Conducted between 2014 and 2021, one hundred and thirty-one college students participated in a study examining why they sing gospel music on college and university campuses, and at subsequent gospel music workshop experiences. This study, through the lens of ethnography “unpacks” their experience to show that their participation is rewarded with benefits that are mirrored in participating in African American church traditions. This text begins by unpacking Glenn Hinson’s text Fire in My Bones which served as the model for this project. Then it shares a case study on church choir participation from an interdominational church experience that challenged ideas of insiders and outsiders to gospel music. That is then followed by a case study on a college and university gospel music workshop observed in conjunction with this research that shared features with the church case study. Later I share my own ethnographic work beginning with the question to participants, “why do you sing in gospel choir at college/university?” Text eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121407 Copyright 2023 Emmanuel Joshua Stokes "You are important to me, I need you to survive": constructing community through college gospel choirs Stokes, Emmanuel Joshua 2023-06-06 Ph.D. Dissertation Musicology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Music