The Story Of The Jubilee Singers

Author : J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385524156
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Jubilee Singers, with Their Songs written by J. B. T. Marsh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Author : Andrew Ward
Publisher : Amistad
ISBN 13 : 9780060934828
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Midnight When I Rise written by Andrew Ward and published by Amistad. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher : Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Jubilee Singers written by J. B. T. Marsh and published by Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company. This book was released on 1883 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : J. B. T. Marsh
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486431321
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jubilee Singers and Their Songs written by J. B. T. Marsh and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lean'tin L. Bracks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heritage & Honor written by Lean'tin L. Bracks and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael L. Cooper
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395978290
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Spirituals and the Jubilee Singers written by Michael L. Cooper and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442484519
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Band of Angels written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Band of Angels is fiction, but it is based on real events and people. The character of Ella was inspired by Ella Sheppard Moore, who was born February 4, 1851, in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father was able to free himself and young Ella from slavery, but before he could buy freedom for Ella’s mother she was sold away. Ella was raised in Cincinnati, where she took music lessons. At fifteen, she was left penniless when her father died. She arrived at Fisk School in 1868 with only six dollars. Fisk was opened in 1866 as a school for former slaves and began offering college classes in 1871. That year, in a desperate attempt to save Fisk from closing, a music teacher named George White set out with a group of students on a singing tour to raise money. Although at first they only sang popular music of the day, they soon became famous for introducing spirituals to the world. Ella Sheppard was the pianist for the Jubilee Singers on their historic concert tours, which raised enough money to save the school and build Jubilee Hall, the first permanent structure in the South for the education of black students. Ella later married George Moore, had three children, and located her mother and a sister. She died in 1914. Today her great-granddaughter is a librarian at Fisk University who shares the history of the Jubilee Singers with visitors. Although none graduated from Fisk, the original Jubilee Singers were recognized with honorary degrees in 1978. Today, Jubilee Singers at Fisk University continue to keep alive a rich musical tradition that includes such songs as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Many Thousand Gone,” and “Go Down, Moses.”

Author : Arna Bontemps
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195156587
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chariot in the Sky written by Arna Bontemps and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sandra Jean Graham
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050304
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry written by Sandra Jean Graham and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kathy Lowinger
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 9781554517473
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Give Me Wings written by Kathy Lowinger and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.