Guide to the William T. Dargan Collection

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Columbia College Chicago

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2025

Abstract

William Thomas Dargan is a published ethnomusicologist and an elder in the United Methodist Church, retired from teaching Music at Fisk University and St. Augustine’s College. Dargan grew up listening to Dr. Isaac Watts' hymn singing as well as rhythm and blues. His collection holds audio musical examples that accompany the written text in his book, Lining Out The Word, and field recordings of spirituals and hymns discussed in his work. The term “lining out” is a form of a cappella hymn-singing where a leader sings or chants each line of a hymn before the congregation sings it together.

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Columbia College Chicago, "Guide to the William T. Dargan Collection" (2025). CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids. 61.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cmbr_guides/61