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Author: Michael L. Cooper
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780395978290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Michael L. Cooper
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780758757128
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Surveys the music of African American slaves and tells the story of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers. Illustrated with archival prints and photographs and appended with words and music to seven songs, this account reveals spirituals as an invaluable and unique history of American slavery.
Author: Sandra Jean Graham
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2018-02-26
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0252050304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Andrew Ward
Publisher: Amistad
Published: 2001-07-01
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780060934828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: William Francis Allen
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1557094349
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell, as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow, and a dull, daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand, the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after, to which their eyes seem constantly turned.
Author: Arna Bontemps
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0195156587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780486431321
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Dena J. Epstein
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780252071508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. This classic work is being reissued with a new author's preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.
