Charrise Barron
Associate Professor of Music
Graduate Advisor in Ethnomusicology (spring 2027)
On leave fall 2026
Charrise Barron is an ethnomusicologist and scholar of African American religious and cultural history. While her research, writing, and presentations have explored a range of topics in African American music, religion, and culture, her current book project The Platinum Age of Gospel centers on contemporary gospel music and illuminates the marked shifts away from previous eras of gospel performance and culture which have defined the last thirty years of the genre.
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