Author: J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher:
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Category : African American musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486431321
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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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.

Author: Andrew Ward
Publisher: Amistad
ISBN: 9780060934828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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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.

Author: Sandra Jean Graham
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252050304
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies. In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources to chart the spiritual's journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. In so doing they lay the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century. A companion website contains jubilee troupe personnel, recordings, and profiles of 85 jubilee groups. Please go to: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/graham/spirituals/

Author: J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company
ISBN:
Category : African American choirs
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This volume is an abridgment of the two previous Jubilee histories. The book contains personal histories of the singers as well as a documentation of their world travels. A selection of the music performed at the Jubilee concerts is included.

Author: Michael L. Cooper
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395978290
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Presents the story of the Jubilee Singers, a group of African Americans who toured singing slave spirituals to raise money for their struggling school.

Author: John A. Lomax
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477313710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Growing up beside the Chisholm Trail, captivated by the songs of passing cowboys and his bosom friend, an African American farmhand, John A. Lomax developed a passion for American folk songs that ultimately made him one of the foremost authorities on this fundamental aspect of Americana. Across many decades and throughout the country, Lomax and his informants created over five thousand recordings of America's musical heritage, including ballads, blues, children's songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs. He acted as honorary curator of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, directed the Slave Narrative Project of the WPA, and cofounded the Texas Folklore Society. Lomax's books include Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, American Ballads and Folk Songs, Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Leadbelly, and Our Singing Country, the last three coauthored with his son Alan Lomax. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter is a memoir of Lomax's eventful life. It recalls his early years and the fruitful decades he spent on the road collecting folk songs, on his own and later with son Alan and second wife Ruby Terrill Lomax. Vibrant, amusing, often haunting stories of the people he met and recorded are the gems of this book, which also gives lyrics for dozens of songs. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter illuminates vital traditions in American popular culture and the labor that has gone into their preservation.

Author: J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338543193X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442484519
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21

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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.

Author: John Wesley Work
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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