| Description |
xvi, 330 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Music in American life
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Music in American life.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. -- The folk spiritual. -- Part I. The rise of a jubilee industry -- The Jubilee Singers of Fisk University -- The Fisk concert spiritual -- Innovators, imitators, and a jubilee industry. |
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Part II. Spirituals for the masses. -- The minstrel show gets religion -- Commercial spirituals -- Spirituals in Uncle Tom shows, melodramas, and spectacles -- Blurring boundaries between traditional and commercial -- Conclusion: lessons and legacies. |
| Summary |
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 laid the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century. |
| Subject |
Jubilee Singers (Fisk University)
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Jubilee Singers (Fisk University) |
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African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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Spirituals (Songs) -- United States -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Spirituals (Songs) |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Minstrel shows -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Minstrel shows. |
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History. |
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Jubilee singers. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9780252041631 (hardback alkaline paper) |
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0252041631 (hardback alkaline paper) |
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9780252083273 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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025208327X (paperback alkaline paper) |
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