NOVEMBER 2022
M. Roger Holland, II is a Teaching Associate Professor in Music and Religion and the Director of Te Spirituals Project at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver. A graduate of Union Teological Seminary in
New York City where he received the Master of Divinity degree, Roger also served as Artist-in-Residence and Director of the Union Gospel Choir for over 13 years. In 2015 Union awarded him the Trailblazers Distinguished Alumni Award, the first given to a graduate whose ministry is music, for his contributions to the legacy of African American music. Roger received a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, also in New York, and completed his undergraduate work at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey where he majored in Music Education with a concentration in piano and voice.
Roger is Editor of the In Spirit and Truth series published by GIA Publications, Inc., which reflects the aesthetic of Black Catholic worship. Commissioned works include “Te Dream and the Dreamer,” “Te Tribulation Suite,” and “Te Call.” Original music collections published by GIA include Building Up the Kingdom, featuring the single “Worthy God,” and his recent collection, Honey from the Rock, Volumes 1-4. He has played for the Broadway productions of Oprah Winfrey’s Te Color Purple and the Tony award-winning show Memphis. In November 2016 Timothy Cardinal Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York presented Roger with the Pierre Toussaint Medallion for service. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in pastoral music.
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Bowman, Sister Tea, FSPA, Ph.D. “Te Gift of African American Sacred Song.” In Lead Me, Guide Me: Te African American Hymnal, Preface. Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 1987.
Chupungco, Anscar J., O.S.B. “Two Methods of Liturgical Inculturation.” In Christian Worship: Unity in Cultural Diversity, edited by S. Anita Stauffer, 77-94. Geneva: Lutheran World Federation, 1996.
Floyd, Jr., Samuel J. Te Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Howze, Joseph L., et al. What We Have Seen and Heard: A Pastoral Letter on Evangelization from the Black Bishops of the United States. Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1984.
Second Vatican Council. Sacrosanctum Concilium. Vatican website,
https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_
sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html, accessed 9/8/22.
USCCB Subcommittee on the Pastoral Care of Migrants, Refugees and Travelers. Welcoming the Stranger among Us: Unity in Diversity. Washington, D.C.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2000.
Whalum, Wendel Phillips. "Black Hymnody." Review & Expositor 70, no. 3 (1973): 341–55.
Wald, Elijah. Te Blues: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Walker, Wyatt Tee. Somebody’s Calling My Name: Black Sacred Music and Social Change. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1979.
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