Author: J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Story of the Jubilee Singers
Author: J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Dark Midnight When I Rise
Author: Andrew Ward
Publisher: Amistad
ISBN: 9780060934828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The inspiring story of the Jubilee singers follows a group of singers--all former slaves--on a grueling journey from Nashville to New York City, where they would introduce thousands of whites to Negro spirituals. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Publisher: Amistad
ISBN: 9780060934828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The inspiring story of the Jubilee singers follows a group of singers--all former slaves--on a grueling journey from Nashville to New York City, where they would introduce thousands of whites to Negro spirituals. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Heritage & Honor
Author: Lean'tin L. Bracks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American choirs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American choirs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Jubilee Singers and Their Songs
Author: J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486431321
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The remarkable story of the Fisk University chorus and their popular performances of Negro folksongs and spirituals, this volume is supplemented by 139 great songs, complete with text, and fully notated both in open score and in a two-stave keyboard reduction. Songs include such all-time favorites as Down By the River.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486431321
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The remarkable story of the Fisk University chorus and their popular performances of Negro folksongs and spirituals, this volume is supplemented by 139 great songs, complete with text, and fully notated both in open score and in a two-stave keyboard reduction. Songs include such all-time favorites as Down By the River.
A Band of Angels
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442484519
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Based on the life of Ella Sheppard Moore, this glowing picture book tells the story of a determined and resilient singing group with a lasting legacy. A loving narrator shares the story of her great-grandmother Ella with her niece. Ella, the daughter of a slave, and the Jubilee Singers traveled all over the world singing the old sorrow songs, the songs of slavery. Their hard work raised funds to keep their college open and pave the way for thousands of students. This luminous, lyrical story is a poignant reminder that the old spirituals, or jubilee songs, stood for hope and freedom.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442484519
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Based on the life of Ella Sheppard Moore, this glowing picture book tells the story of a determined and resilient singing group with a lasting legacy. A loving narrator shares the story of her great-grandmother Ella with her niece. Ella, the daughter of a slave, and the Jubilee Singers traveled all over the world singing the old sorrow songs, the songs of slavery. Their hard work raised funds to keep their college open and pave the way for thousands of students. This luminous, lyrical story is a poignant reminder that the old spirituals, or jubilee songs, stood for hope and freedom.
The Story of the Jubilee Singers with Their Songs
Author: J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : African American musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : African American musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Chariot in the Sky
Author: Arna Bontemps
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195156587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Eleven black students form a singing group and tour the world in an attempt to save their college from financial ruin. Includes a history of the Jubilee Singers, including photographs, song sheets, concert posters, and programs.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195156587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Eleven black students form a singing group and tour the world in an attempt to save their college from financial ruin. Includes a history of the Jubilee Singers, including photographs, song sheets, concert posters, and programs.
Slave Spirituals and the Jubilee Singers
Author: Michael L. Cooper
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395978290
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Presents the story of the Jubilee Singers, a group of African Americans who toured singing slave spirituals to raise money for their struggling school.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395978290
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Presents the story of the Jubilee Singers, a group of African Americans who toured singing slave spirituals to raise money for their struggling school.
Give Me Wings
Author: Kathy Lowinger
Publisher: Annick Press
ISBN: 9781554517473
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Changing minds one song at a time. The 1800s were a dangerous time to be a black girl in the United States, especially if you were born a slave. Ella Sheppard was such a girl, but her family bought their freedom and moved to Ohio where slavery was illegal; they even scraped enough money together to send Ella to school and buy her a piano. In 1871, when her school ran out of money and was on the brink of closure, Ella became a founding member of a traveling choir, the Jubilee Singers, to help raise funds for the Fisk Free Colored School, later known as Fisk University. The Jubilee Singers traveled from Cincinnati to New York, following the Underground Railroad. With every performance they endangered their lives and those of the people helping them, but they also broke down barriers between blacks and whites, lifted spirits, and even helped influence modern American music: the Jubilees were the first to introduce spirituals outside their black communities, thrilling white audiences who were used to more sedate European songs. Framed within Ella's inspiring story, Give Me Wings! is narrative nonfiction at its finest, taking readers through one of history's most tumultuous and dramatic times, touching on the Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction Era. Click here to listen to the Publishers Weekly KidsCast: A Conversation with Kathy Lowinger.
Publisher: Annick Press
ISBN: 9781554517473
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Changing minds one song at a time. The 1800s were a dangerous time to be a black girl in the United States, especially if you were born a slave. Ella Sheppard was such a girl, but her family bought their freedom and moved to Ohio where slavery was illegal; they even scraped enough money together to send Ella to school and buy her a piano. In 1871, when her school ran out of money and was on the brink of closure, Ella became a founding member of a traveling choir, the Jubilee Singers, to help raise funds for the Fisk Free Colored School, later known as Fisk University. The Jubilee Singers traveled from Cincinnati to New York, following the Underground Railroad. With every performance they endangered their lives and those of the people helping them, but they also broke down barriers between blacks and whites, lifted spirits, and even helped influence modern American music: the Jubilees were the first to introduce spirituals outside their black communities, thrilling white audiences who were used to more sedate European songs. Framed within Ella's inspiring story, Give Me Wings! is narrative nonfiction at its finest, taking readers through one of history's most tumultuous and dramatic times, touching on the Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction Era. Click here to listen to the Publishers Weekly KidsCast: A Conversation with Kathy Lowinger.
To Wager Her Heart
Author: Tamera Alexander
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310413184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Set against the real history of Nashville’s Belle Meade Plantation and the original Fisk University Jubilee Singers ensemble, To Wager Her Heart is a stirring love story about seeking justice and restoring honor at a time in American history when both were tenuous and hard-won. With fates bound by a shared tragedy, a reformed gambler from the Colorado Territory and a Southern Belle bent on breaking free from society’s expectations must work together to achieve their dreams—provided the truth doesn’t tear them apart first. Sylas Rutledge, new owner of the Northeast Line Railroad, invests everything he has into this new venture, partly for the sake of the challenge. But mostly to clear his father’s name. One man holds the key to Sy’s success—General William Giles Harding of Nashville’s Belle Meade Plantation. But Harding is champagne and thoroughbreds, and Sy Rutledge is beer and bullocks. Sy needs someone to help him maneuver through Nashville’s society, and when he meets Alexandra Jamison, he quickly decides he’s found his tutor. But he soon discovers that the very train accident his father is blamed for causing is what killed Alexandra’s fiancé and shattered her world. Spurning an arranged marriage by her father, Alexandra instead pursues her passion for teaching at Fisk University, the first freedmen’s university in the United States. But family—and Nashville society—do not approve, and she soon finds herself cast out from both. Through connections with the Harding family, Alexandra and Sy become unlikely allies. And despite first impressions, Alexandra gradually finds herself coming to respect and even care for this man. But how can she, when her heart is still spoken for? Sy is willing to risk everything to win over the woman he loves. What he doesn’t count on is having to wager her heart to do it.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310413184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Set against the real history of Nashville’s Belle Meade Plantation and the original Fisk University Jubilee Singers ensemble, To Wager Her Heart is a stirring love story about seeking justice and restoring honor at a time in American history when both were tenuous and hard-won. With fates bound by a shared tragedy, a reformed gambler from the Colorado Territory and a Southern Belle bent on breaking free from society’s expectations must work together to achieve their dreams—provided the truth doesn’t tear them apart first. Sylas Rutledge, new owner of the Northeast Line Railroad, invests everything he has into this new venture, partly for the sake of the challenge. But mostly to clear his father’s name. One man holds the key to Sy’s success—General William Giles Harding of Nashville’s Belle Meade Plantation. But Harding is champagne and thoroughbreds, and Sy Rutledge is beer and bullocks. Sy needs someone to help him maneuver through Nashville’s society, and when he meets Alexandra Jamison, he quickly decides he’s found his tutor. But he soon discovers that the very train accident his father is blamed for causing is what killed Alexandra’s fiancé and shattered her world. Spurning an arranged marriage by her father, Alexandra instead pursues her passion for teaching at Fisk University, the first freedmen’s university in the United States. But family—and Nashville society—do not approve, and she soon finds herself cast out from both. Through connections with the Harding family, Alexandra and Sy become unlikely allies. And despite first impressions, Alexandra gradually finds herself coming to respect and even care for this man. But how can she, when her heart is still spoken for? Sy is willing to risk everything to win over the woman he loves. What he doesn’t count on is having to wager her heart to do it.